Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:20:11 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: soralx@cydem.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Propietary NVIDIA driver pwn3d Message-ID: <20061019182010.GA33997@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200610190316.23179.soralx@cydem.org> References: <20061018205647.b8578efc.mmendez@energyhq.be> <86slhk7icp.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200610190316.23179.soralx@cydem.org>
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--ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFN8HaWry0BWjoQKURAkzzAJ9We6srlJcXzxemeAGztfIhAoJRIwCcD4FH THWJfmZwN47twopYtAFLQv4= =NoOR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q--
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