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NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA22419
Release Date: 2006-10-17
Last Update: 2006-10-27
Popularity: 10,598 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:NVIDIA Graphics Drivers for Linux 1.x

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Description:
Rapid7 has reported a vulnerability in NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and potentially by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

A boundary error when performing accelerated rendering of glyphs can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted short sequence of user-supplied glyphs.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with "root" privileges.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 8774 and 8762. Other versions may also be affected.

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