Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-5379: NVIDIA binary graphics driver: Privilege escalation vulnerability
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
10/18/2006
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
10/30/2017
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.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-drivers-nvidia-drivers
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