[Fwd: Buffer Overflow in NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver For Linux (with exploit)]

Hanno Böck ml at hboeck.de
Tue Oct 17 03:23:27 PDT 2006


Am Montag, 16. Oktober 2006 23:59 schrieb Lonni J Friedman:
> Please note that this exploit is already fixed/resolved in the
> 1.0-9625 beta driver:
> http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70b etadriver.html

Then let me ask why
- this isn't mentioned in the changelog (at least I couldn't find it)
- nvidia hasn't published a security-advisory
- nvidia has knowingly continued to provide it's "stable"-drivers with the 
possibility to exploit for weeks.

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