NVIDIA drivers: Denial of service

NVIDIA drivers: Denial of service A vulnerability has been discovered in the NVIDIA graphic drivers, allowing for a Denial of Service. nvidia-drivers 2007-08-19 2007-10-11 183567 local 71.86.01 1.0.7185 1.0.9639 100.14.06

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"

CVE-2007-3532 jaervosz jaervosz p-y