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CVE-2006-5379

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.

Published

2006-10-18T04:06:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	nvidia	binary_graphics_driver	v8762	Yes
Application	nvidia	binary_graphics_driver	v8774	Yes

References

http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/ ([email protected])
http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/nv_exploit.c Exploit ([email protected])
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/22419 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/22676 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/22730 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/22764 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/23678 ([email protected])
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-03.xml ([email protected])
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1742 ([email protected])
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017072 ([email protected])
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102693-1 ([email protected])
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/147252 US Government Resource ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:007 ([email protected])
http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0025.jsp Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448860/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451329/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20559 ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-377-1 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4053 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4328 ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29622 ([email protected])
http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/nv_exploit.c Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/22419 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/22676 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/22730 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/22764 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/23678 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-03.xml (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1742 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017072 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102693-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/147252 US Government Resource (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:007 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0025.jsp Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448860/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451329/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20559 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-377-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4053 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4328 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29622 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)