Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-3532

Title: Nvidia Video Driver Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-3532.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Jul 27, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.38%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-3532: 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.

Impacted Vendors

nvidia 1

Reference Links

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 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-3532 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 27, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.