*Serious* security problem with nVidia binary driver

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Mon Oct 16 20:37:11 UTC 2006


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.

-Andy




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