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

[Rene Rebe]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 12:23, Hanno Böck wrote:
> 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.
years

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