CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5379

Published: Oct 18, 2006 | Modified: Oct 17, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Binary_graphics_driver Nvidia v8762 (including) v8762 (including)
Binary_graphics_driver Nvidia v8774 (including) v8774 (including)

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