*Serious* security problem with nVidia binary driver is New driver working?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/23/06, François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman a écrit :
> > On 10/16/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >>
> >> > This bug was fixed in NVIDIA's 1.0-9625 driver release (last month):
> >> > http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html
> >>
> >> This isn't what the advisory says:
> >>
> >>   Published:  Oct 16, 2006
> >>     Revision:   1.0
> >>     http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0025.jsp
> >> ...
> >>     KNOWN FIXED:
> >>      o None
> >> ...
> >>     As of the publication date, the latest NVIDIA binary driver is still
> >>     vulnerable.
> >>
> >> Maybe they discount the version you linked to because it calls itself a
> >> beta.
> >
>
> Bonjour,
>
> I just tried to compile and install 9625 version of nvidia driver
> (downloaded from nvidia web site).
>
> No problem to compile, no problem to install.... but not working: screen
> remains black while booting in level 5 or in level 3 then using startx...
>
> does anybody have the same problem?

See:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=996233&postcount=20



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