NVIDIA drivers: Denial of service — GLSA 200708-14

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

Package	x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers on all architectures
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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