CVE-2006-5379: NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 27.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The accelerated rendering functionality of NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver (binary blob driver) For Linux v8774 and v8762, and probably on other operating systems, allows local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large width value in a font glyph, which can be used to overwrite arbitrary memory locations.

Affected products

• NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver: version v8762 only; version v8774 only

Published 2006-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.