CVE-2006-5379

Publication date 18 October 2006

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 7.04 feisty Not in release
6.10 edgy Not in release
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 2.6.15.12-29.1
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17 7.04 feisty Not in release
6.10 edgy
Fixed 2.6.17.8-12.3
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-377-1
    • NVIDIA vulnerability
    • 4 November 2006

Other references