CVE-2006-5379 (GCVE-0-2006-5379)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-10-18 10:00
Modified
2024-08-07 19:48
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4053 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/22730 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/nv_exploit.c x_refsource_MISC
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-03.xml vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20559 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1742 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SREASON
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-377-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102693-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUNALERT
http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0025.jsp x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/22419 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017072 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/147252 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CERT-VN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29622 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4328 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/22676 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451329/100/0/threaded mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:007 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/23678 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/ x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448860/100/0/threaded mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/22764 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
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