GLSA 200708-14: NVIDIA drivers: Denial of Service

Severity:normal
Title:NVIDIA drivers: Denial of Service
Date:08/19/2007
Bugs: #183567
ID:200708-14

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in the NVIDIA graphic drivers, allowing for a Denial of Service.

Background

The NVIDIA drivers provide support for NVIDIA graphic boards.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers == 100.14.06 >= 71.86.01 All supported architectures

Description

Gregory Shikhman discovered that the default Gentoo setup of NVIDIA drivers creates the /dev/nvidia* with insecure file permissions.

Impact

A local attacker could send arbitrary values into the devices, possibly resulting in hardware damage on the graphic board or a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All NVIDIA drivers users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-14.xml

Concerns?

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License

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