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.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
Ubuntu USN |
USN-377-1 | NVIDIA vulnerability |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T19:48:30.100Z
Reserved: 2006-10-17T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-5379
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2006-10-18T04:06:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2006-5379
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
Ubuntu USN