CVE-2006-5379 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5379
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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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