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

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!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>August 19, 2007</announced>
<revised>October 11, 2007: 03</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 &quot;x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3532">CVE-2007-3532</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:38:56 +0000">
jaervosz
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:39:35 +0000">
jaervosz
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:41:51 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>