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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:41:42 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Miguel Mendez <mmendez@energyhq.be>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Propietary NVIDIA driver pwn3d
Message-ID:  <86slhk7icp.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20061018205647.b8578efc.mmendez@energyhq.be> (Miguel Mendez's message of "Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:56:47 %2B0200")
References:  <20061018205647.b8578efc.mmendez@energyhq.be>

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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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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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