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Secunia Advisory SA26497

Gentoo nvidia-drivers Insecure Permissions Security Issue
Secunia Advisory SA26497
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Release Date 2007-08-20
   
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact DoS
Where Local system
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
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Operating System
Gentoo Linux
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CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-3532 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Gregory Shikhman has reported a security issue in the nvidia-drivers package, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The security issue is caused due to incorrect permissions on the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*). This can be exploited to cause a DoS or potentially damage the hardware by sending arbitrary values to the device files.


Solution
Update to the latest versions of "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers".

Provided and/or discovered by
Gregory Shikhman

Original Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-14.xml

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