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TITLE:
Gentoo nvidia-drivers Insecure Permissions Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26497

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26497/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gregory Shikhman has reported a security issue in the nvidia-drivers
package, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a
DoS (Denial of Service).

The security issue is caused due to incorrect permissions on the
NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*). This can be exploited to cause a
DoS or potentially damage the hardware by sending arbitrary values to
the device files.

SOLUTION:
Update to the latest versions of "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers".

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Gregory Shikhman

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-14.xml

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