CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5379

7.5 HIGH Published 2006-10-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-10-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• nvidia binary graphics driver v8762 • nvidia binary graphics driver v8774

References