CVE-2006-5379

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.

• http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/
• http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/nv_exploit.cExploit
• http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22419Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22676
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22730
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22764
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23678
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-03.xml
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1742
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017072
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102693-1
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/147252US Government Resource
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:007
• http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0025.jspVendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448860/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451329/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20559
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-377-1
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4053
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4328
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29622
• http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/
• http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/nv_exploit.cExploit
• http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22419Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22676
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22730
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22764
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23678
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-03.xml
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1742
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017072
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102693-1
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/147252US Government Resource
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:007
• http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0025.jspVendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448860/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451329/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20559
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-377-1
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4053
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4328
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29622

Published

Oct 18, 2006

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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