CVE-2006-5379

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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	393573

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
nvidia-graphics-drivers (PTS)	buster/non-free	418.226.00-3	fixed
	bullseye/non-free	470.223.02-1	fixed
	bookworm/non-free-firmware	525.147.05-4~deb12u1	fixed
	trixie/non-free-firmware	525.147.05-10	fixed
	sid/non-free-firmware	535.161.08-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
nvidia-graphics-drivers	source	sarge	(not affected)
nvidia-graphics-drivers	source	(unstable)	1.0.8776-1			393573

Notes

[sarge] - nvidia-graphics-drivers <not-affected> (1.0.7174 not affected)
see http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971