NVIDIA GeForce 376.33 WHQL arrives for Oculus Touch and has security updates

Posted on Wednesday, December 14 2016 @ 17:07 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

NVIDIA rolled out the GeForce 376.33 WHQL driver, you can get it via the usual page, this driver has optimizations for the Oculus Touch launch lineup.

The changelog of this release contains two unusual items; it contains several security improvements and for some reason NVIDIA disabled the SLI profile of Titanfall 2. Not sure why they disabled Titanfall 2 SLI support, probably because it was broken. The security updates are listed below.

Windows 10 Fixed Issues:
Install the Display Container via co-installer. [200228206]
Clean up the escape calls that use physical addresses. [1626231]

Windows 8.1/Windows 8/Windows 7 Fixed Issues:
Install the Display Container via co-installer. [200228206]
NV_ESC_ID_NVAPI_REPORT_WFD_HOTPLUG and NV_ESC_ID_NVAPI_ENUM_DISPLAYIDS_EX don't validate the size of input, causing a KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE. [1808374]
Clean up the escape calls that use physical addresses. [1626231]
NVL_ESC_ID_COMMON_REGISTRY_ACCESS escalates user privileges when the registry is accessed. [1359976]

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