CVE-2006-5379
The accelerated rendering functionality of NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver (binary blob driver) For Linux v8774 and v8762, and probably on other operating...
- Published
- Oct 18, 2006
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Oct 16, 2006
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PModerate · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 98.0%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1Rapid7 Security · linux · Oct 16, 2006
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