Detections
Analytics
CVE-2006-5379
high
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.
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29622
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4328
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4053
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-377-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20559
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451329/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448860/100/0/threaded
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:007
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/147252
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102693-1
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017072
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1742
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-03.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/23678
http://secunia.com/advisories/22764
http://secunia.com/advisories/22730
http://secunia.com/advisories/22676
http://secunia.com/advisories/22419
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971