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.

CVSS v2.0

7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

26.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 98th percentile

Published

2006-10-18

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2581

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2006-5320
• CVE-2006-5383
• CVE-2006-5319
• CVE-2006-5384
• CVE-2006-5318
• CVE-2006-5385