On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:38:25 +0100, Nick Boyce wrote:

> Regarding the remote root hole in Nvidia's closed-source binary xserver 
> driver 
> announced today by Rapid7 :
>   http://download2.rapid7.com/r7-0025/
> and being discussed all over the place :
>   http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/16/2038253
>   http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
> it looks to me as though the hole is not present in the version of the driver 
> packaged for Sarge (1.0.7174).  The Rapid7 bulletin asserts the hole is 
> present in Linux driver versions 8762 and 8774 - and _probably_ earlier 
> versions.

[ ... ]

> Just for the sake of calm (my calm) can anyone else confirm this ?

The legacy nvidia graphics drivers should also be checked.

> Cheers
> Nick Boyce

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