From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 10:16:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA8A16A403 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:16:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd5mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE61E43D5A for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:16:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.21]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J7D00KIHOJD01C0@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:16:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J7D00EP7OJC2DL0@pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:16:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from soralx.cydem.org ([24.87.27.3]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J7D002ZKOJC6QH0@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:16:24 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:16:22 -0700 From: soralx@cydem.org In-reply-to: <86slhk7icp.fsf@dwp.des.no> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-id: <200610190316.23179.soralx@cydem.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <20061018205647.b8578efc.mmendez@energyhq.be> <86slhk7icp.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Subject: Re: Propietary NVIDIA driver pwn3d X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:16:25 -0000 > Miguel Mendez 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. al least those can be promptly fixed... > DES [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2