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 -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]