CVE-2006-5379

CVE-2006-5379 affects NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver (the binary blob driver) for Linux, specifically v8774 and v8762, with the accelerated rendering path for font glyphs. The vulnerability arises from improper handling of very large font glyph width values, enabling an attacker to corrupt memory ...

CVE-2006-5379: Undefined Security Weakness

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...