A vulnerability has been discovered in the NVIDIA graphic drivers, allowing for a Denial of Service.
Package | x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers on all architectures |
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Affected versions | = 100.14.06 |
Unaffected versions | >= 71.86.01 revision >= 1.0.7185 revision >= 1.0.9639 |
The NVIDIA drivers provide support for NVIDIA graphic boards.
Gregory Shikhman discovered that the default Gentoo setup of NVIDIA drivers creates the /dev/nvidia* with insecure file permissions.
A local attacker could send arbitrary values into the devices, possibly resulting in hardware damage on the graphic board or a Denial of Service.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All NVIDIA drivers users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"
Release date
August 19, 2007
Latest revision
October 11, 2007: 03
Severity
normal
Exploitable
local
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