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.
Published: 2006-10-18
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 36.5% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-377-1 NVIDIA vulnerability
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Nvidia Binary Graphics Driver
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:48:30.100Z

Reserved: 2006-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5379

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-10-18T04:06:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-5379

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