This bug was fixed in NVIDIA's 1.0-9625 driver release (last month): http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html On 10/16/06, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
''A recent security advisory announced today by Rapid7 explains, "the NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as root. This bug can be exploited both locally or remotely (via a remote X client or an X client which visits a malicious web page). A working proof-of-concept root exploit is attached to this advisory." ...'' http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 Good time to try the nv driver! -Andy
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