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Mandriva: Updated nvidia driver packages fix vulnerability Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Mandrake A vulnerability in the NVIDIA Xorg driver was discovered by Derek Abdine who found that it did not correctly verify the size of buffers used to render text glyphs, resulting in a crash of the server when displaying very long strings of text. If a user was triced into viewing a specially crafted series of glyphs, this flaw could be exploited to run arbitrary code with root privileges.
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDKSA-2007:007
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Package : krb5
 Date    : January 10, 2007
 Affected: 2007.0
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Problem Description:
 
 A vulnerability in the NVIDIA Xorg driver was discovered by Derek
 Abdine who found that it did not correctly verify the size of buffers
 used to render text glyphs, resulting in a crash of the server when
 displaying very long strings of text.  If a user was tricked into
 viewing a specially crafted series of glyphs, this flaw could be
 exploited to run arbitrary code with root privileges.

 This vulnerability exists in driver versions 1.0-8762 and 1.0-8774 and
 is corrected in 1.0-8776 which is being provided with this update.

 The packages can be found in the non-free/updates media.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:
 
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5379
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Updated Packages:
 
 Mandriva Linux 2007.0:
 3003991cb905b6b320ceabe32cc7a983  2007.0/i586/dkms-nvidia-8776-1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 2c519b24d141713c423ef9d10c6287de  2007.0/i586/nvidia-8776-1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 69eff61846795f6a849e2fdd5eb3a2f9  2007.0/i586/nvidia-kernel-2.6.17-5mdv-8776-1mdk.i586.rpm
 5a3c611e53ec9d636c3d191e64bc7447  2007.0/i586/nvidia-kernel-2.6.17-5mdventerprise-8776-1mdk.i586.rpm
 82ac29835942c5de7a3b0d72c5212b8d  2007.0/i586/nvidia-kernel-2.6.17-5mdvlegacy-8776-1mdk.i586.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64:
 03b3098b8f73457af6045dc5d9cf1cc7  2007.0/x86_64/dkms-nvidia-8776-1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 7549687671abb40f1cffc85d73699c68  2007.0/x86_64/nvidia-8776-1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 3a7d4c53a90033c1ab029f285abf39e5  2007.0/x86_64/nvidia-kernel-2.6.17-5mdv-8776-1mdk.x86_64.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
  
 
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