Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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.
This vulnerability exists in driver versions 1.0-8762 and 1.0-8774 and is corrected in 1.0-8776 which is being provided with this update.
The packages can be found in the non-free/updates media.
Affected
krb5 on Mandriva Linux 2007.0,
Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2006-5379 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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