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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5379
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-5379

Description:
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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29622

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-377-1

SUNALERT
  http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102693-1

ST
  1017072

SREASON
  http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1742

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA22764
  Secunia Advisory: SA22730
  Secunia Advisory: SA22676
  Secunia Advisory: SA22419
  Secunia Advisory: SA23678

MISC
  http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/
  http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/nv_exploit.c
  http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0025.jsp

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:007

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-03.xml

CONFIRM
  http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971

CERT-VN
  147252

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/451329/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/448860/100/0/threaded

BID
  20559


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