Security Advisories | SQL Injection | Intel Display Driver Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Vendor: Intel
Version Affected: Intel Graphics Driver 6.14.10 .4308
Type: Remote Denial Of Service
Severity: Moderately Critical
Date released: 3rd January 2006

I. Description
The Intel Graphics Accelerator driver is susceptible to a remote denial of service vulnerability. This issue is demonstrated to occur when the affected driver attempts to display an overly long text in a text area.

Screenshots: The screenshots can be viewed here


II. Impact
This issue allows attackers to crash the display manager on Microsoft Windows XP, or cause a complete system crash on computers running Microsoft Windows 2000. Other operating systems where the affected display driver is available are also likely affected.

III. Solution
Vendor has been notified.

Vendor's Response
No response.