gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200708-14.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200708-14">
  <title>NVIDIA drivers: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been discovered in the NVIDIA graphic drivers, allowing
    for a Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">nvidia-drivers</product>
  <announced>2007-08-19</announced>
  <revised count="03">2007-10-11</revised>
  <bug>183567</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">71.86.01</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">1.0.7185</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">1.0.9639</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="eq">100.14.06</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The NVIDIA drivers provide support for NVIDIA graphic boards.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Gregory Shikhman discovered that the default Gentoo setup of NVIDIA
    drivers creates the /dev/nvidia* with insecure file permissions.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could send arbitrary values into the devices, possibly
    resulting in hardware damage on the graphic board or a Denial of
    Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All NVIDIA drivers users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3532">CVE-2007-3532</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-07-28T07:38:56Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-07-28T07:39:35Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-08-12T20:41:51Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>