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Quote of the week

Posted Oct 20, 2006 3:13 UTC (Fri) by grouch (guest, #27289)
In reply to: Quote of the week by einstein
Parent article: Quote of the week

The beta driver has been available from nvidia for some weeks now. I simply downloaded it from their ftp site, and it's been running nicely. Actually I downloaded 1.0-9625 in September, and went back for 1.0-9262 last week or so.

By "running nicely", do you mean you have audited the code and confirmed that the vulnerability being reported has indeed been fixed and that no others exist in the code at this time?

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Quote of the week

Posted Oct 20, 2006 6:44 UTC (Fri) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

Presumably you've done this with the OSS nv driver? Detailed results, please?

Quote of the week

Posted Oct 21, 2006 18:29 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

It's been a day and a half since my previous post and I'm still interested in the results of your code audit.

Of course, you may not have an NVidia card and thus may have no motivation to audit the OSS nv driver. Perhaps you could supply your results from the driver for the chipset you *do* have? I would be interested in that as well.

Or perhaps just a link to the results of someone else's code audit of the OSS nv driver?

"Many Eyes" only make "All Bugs Shallow" if any of those eyes actually bother to look.

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Posted Oct 26, 2006 0:47 UTC (Thu) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link]

Which exploit in the open source nv driver are you referring to exactly?