Executive Summary

Summary
Title NVIDIA drivers: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-200708-14 First vendor Publication 2007-08-19
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2007-08-19
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

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

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-3532 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3532

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

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-14.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200708-14 (nvidia-drivers)
File : nvt/glsa_200708_14.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
40177 Gentoo Linux NVIDIA Drivers (nvidia-drivers) /dev/nvidia* Device Permission W...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-08-21 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200708-14.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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