CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-3532

Published: Jul 27, 2007 | Modified: Dec 28, 2009
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

NVIDIA drivers (nvidia-drivers) before 1.0.7185, 1.0.9639, and 100.14.11, as used in Gentoo Linux and possibly other distributions, creates /dev/nvidia* device files with insecure permissions, which allows local users to modify video card settings, cause a denial of service (crash or physical video card damage), and obtain sensitive information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux Gentoo * *
Linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 Ubuntu dapper *
Linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 Ubuntu hardy *
Linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 Ubuntu upstream *

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