Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver [LWN.net]

Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver

Posted Aug 2, 2012 11:10 UTC (Thu) by bush (guest, #86065)
Parent article: Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver

Set NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles to 0 can deny common user direct access /dev/nvidia0.
If it set, you can see "direct rendering: No" in glxinfo.
But it will make gdm cannot start at some distribution.

Centos 6.3 64bit with nvidia 295.59 will exit after print [*] Abusing nVidia... without other message.
I don't known why... (didn't set NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles=0)

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