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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-10-18T10:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2006-5379

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2018-10-17T21:42:41.750

Link: CVE-2006-5379

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