CVE-2007-3532 Information

Description

NVIDIA drivers (nvidia-drivers) before 1.0.7185 1.0.9639 and 100.14.11 as used in Gentoo Linux and possibly other distributions creates /dev/nvidia* device files with insecure permissions which allows local users to modify video card settings cause a denial of service (crash or physical video card damage) and obtain sensitive information.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/40177 http://secunia.com/advisories/26497 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-14.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25360 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25363 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183567