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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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
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2006-10-18T04:06:00.000
Modified: 2018-10-17T21:42:41.750
Link: CVE-2006-5379
Redhat
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