Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:30:43 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: soralx@cydem.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Propietary NVIDIA driver pwn3d Message-ID: <20061020023043.GA41532@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200610191914.41286.soralx@cydem.org> References: <20061018205647.b8578efc.mmendez@energyhq.be> <20061019190436.GE19415@graf.pompo.net> <20061019191429.GA34611@xor.obsecurity.org> <200610191914.41286.soralx@cydem.org>
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--Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 07:14:41PM -0700, soralx@cydem.org wrote: >=20 > > > > > al least those can be promptly fixed... > > > > Wasn't this one promptly fixed too? > > > This bug was reported on 2004-12-21: > > > <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D2129>. > > Well...sort of. The *symptoms* are reported there but no-one > > identified it as a nvidia driver bug. >=20 > duh... could the fact that the bug was well hidden within the depths > of the binary blob play a role? Debugging _with_ a source code is a > hell of a way to waste time sometimes, let alone trying to fix > something when all you have is a binary module... a kernel module. No, the point was that no-one in that URL pieced together that "the crash occurs only when I have nvidia loaded" until a few days ago, so it's not supportive of the original claim. i.e. since no-one even figured out nvidia was relevant, the closed-source nature of the nvidia driver isn't relevant either. Anyway, someone else suggested they did take a few months to deal with the problem once reported by someone else (but not nearly 2 years as originally claimed), so I'll give that the benefit of doubt. Kris --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFODTTWry0BWjoQKURAtY3AKCKR8FrzRzv+qwRDqP13uy4nf9/TgCg7bO0 12V1kefDzNsJRdfK4uNREHg= =XN9A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi--
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