NVIDIA R555-Linux (NFB) End of Life Date
NVIDIA R555-Linux (NFB) end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data reconciled from official vendor documentation and endoflife.date at every build; the source of each date is on the product page.
NVIDIA r555-linux was released on June 4, 2024 and support ended on June 1, 2025 — a supported lifespan of 1 year, in line with the 1 year median for NVIDIA releases. It was not an LTS release; NVIDIA reserves longer patch windows for its LTS versions. The last patch it will ever receive is 555.58.02, published July 1, 2024 — 11 months before support ended. It has been without security patches for 1 year and 4 months. 12 newer NVIDIA releases have shipped since.
| Version | Latest | EOL Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| R390-Linux LTS | 390.157 | Nov 22, 2022 | EOL |
| R390-Windows LTS | 392.68 | Oct 26, 2021 | EOL |
| R418-Linux LTS | 418.197.02 | Mar 1, 2022 | EOL |
| R418-Windows LTS | 427.45 | Mar 1, 2022 | EOL |
| R450-Linux LTS | 450.248.02 | Jul 1, 2023 | EOL |
| R450-Windows LTS | 454.23 | Jul 1, 2023 | EOL |
| R460-Windows (PB) | 463.15 | Jan 1, 2022 | EOL |
| R460-Linux (PB) | 460.106.00 | Jan 1, 2022 | EOL |
What does NVIDIA R555-Linux (NFB) end of life mean?
When NVIDIA R555-Linux (NFB) reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: A CVE-based scan does not show the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Some scanners flag unsupported versions of common products, but coverage varies, and none of them give you the date in advance. Running NVIDIA R555-Linux (NFB) past its EOL date creates a growing attack surface that a clean scan result does not rule out.
Migrate to NVIDIA R615-Windows (NFB) or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.