Local root exploit in NVidia driver

Local root exploit in NVidia driver

Posted Oct 17, 2006 12:30 UTC (Tue) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Local root exploit in NVidia driver by beejaybee
Parent article: Local root exploit in NVidia driver

The point being that a hacker who can get into the system at all

And the nvidia hole does what, exactly, to enable such a hacker?

Yes, back in the 1990s, a default install (from, say, Red Hat) would have twenty services running, ten of which would have remote holes. So you could assume that any system is effectively multi-user. Those days are gone (I would hope). If you're a desktop user, you shouldn't have any open ports.

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