The NVIDIA Geforce Experience software contains a vulnerability when using ShadowPlay, NvContainer or GameStream are enabled.

When opening a file, the NVIDIA GeForce Experience software does not check for hard links, which allows attackers to escalate privileges, perform code execution and DoS attacks.

NVIDIA has already released a security update 3.18 to fix this vulnerability. NVIDIA users should update to the latest version to stay protected against DoS attacks.

What is a hard link?

A hard link or physical link is a reference or pointer to a file in a file system.
Hard links, associate two or more files by sharing the same space

Our advice is to always keep our devices and components updated.


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