CVE-2006-5379
First published: Wed Oct 18 2006(Updated: )
The accelerated rendering functionality of NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver (binary blob driver) For Linux v8774 and v8762, and probably on other operating systems, allows local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large width value in a font glyph, which can be used to overwrite arbitrary memory locations.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver | =v8774 | |
| NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver | =v8762 |
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Reference Links
- http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/nv_exploit.c
- http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0025.jsp
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/147252
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017072
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22419
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20559
- http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102693-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-377-1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22676
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22730
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-03.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22764
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:007
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23678
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1742
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4053
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4328
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29622
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451329/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448860/100/0/threaded
- collector/nvd-historical
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/references
- agent/author
- agent/type
- agent/description
- agent/event
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/nvidia
- canonical/nvidia binary graphics driver
- version/nvidia binary graphics driver/v8774
- version/nvidia binary graphics driver/v8762