Mandriva Linux Security Advisory - A vulnerability in the NVIDIA Xorg driver was discovered by Derek Abdine who found that it did not correctly verify the size of buffers used to render text glyphs, resulting in a crash of the server when displaying very long strings of text. If a user was tricked into viewing a specially crafted series of glyphs, this flaw could be exploited to run arbitrary code with root privileges.
eb28a9746eaf813126f1c03596064c89e878831d32e80fde7e8967986bb68d0cUbuntu Security Notice 377-1 - Derek Abdine discovered that the NVIDIA Xorg driver did not correctly verify the size of buffers used to render text glyphs. When displaying very long strings of text, the Xorg server would crash. If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted series of glyphs, this flaw could be exploited to run arbitrary code with root privileges.
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