PublicDate: 2006-10-18 04:06:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2006-5379
References:
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-377-1
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5379
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Priority: untriaged
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:

Bugs:
dapper_linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15: released (2.6.15.12-29.1)
edgy_linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15: DNE
feisty_linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15: DNE
devel_linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15: DNE
dapper_linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17: DNE
edgy_linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17: released (2.6.17.8-12.3)
feisty_linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17: DNE
devel_linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17: DNE
upstream_linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15: needs-triage
upstream_linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17: needs-triage