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GLSA-200708-14 : NVIDIA drivers: Denial of Service

high Nessus Plugin ID 25920

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200708-14 (NVIDIA drivers: Denial of Service)

 Gregory Shikhman discovered that the default Gentoo setup of NVIDIA drivers creates the /dev/nvidia* with insecure file permissions.
 Impact :

 A local attacker could send arbitrary values into the devices, possibly resulting in hardware damage on the graphic board or a Denial of Service.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All NVIDIA drivers users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose 'x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200708-14

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25920

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200708-14.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 8/21/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:nvidia-drivers, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3532

CWE: 264

GLSA: 200708-14