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Subject: Re: Propietary NVIDIA driver pwn3d
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Miguel Mendez <mmendez@energyhq.be> writes:
> Told you so :)
>
> http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0025.jsp
>
> Hopefully this kind of stuff will make some people reconsider their
> opinion about proprietary kernel drivers.

Oh yes, because open source kernel drivers are *never* vulnerable to
local privilege escalation attacks.

DES
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