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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:16:22AM -0700, soralx@cydem.org wrote:
>=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > Oh yes, because open source kernel drivers are *never* vulnerable to
> > local privilege escalation attacks.
>=20
> al least those can be promptly fixed...

Wasn't this one promptly fixed too?

Kris

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