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linux-restricted-modules: nVidia driver vulnerability

Package(s):linux-restricted-modules CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5379
Created:November 6, 2006 Updated:January 11, 2007
Description: Derek Abdine discovered that the NVIDIA Xorg driver did not correctly verify the size of buffers used to render text glyphs. When displaying very long strings of text, the Xorg server would crash. If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted series of glyphs, this flaw could be exploited to run arbitrary code with root privileges.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:007 2007-01-10
Gentoo 200611-03 2006-11-07
Ubuntu USN-377-1 2006-11-03
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