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Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver

Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver

Posted Aug 10, 2012 8:48 UTC (Fri) by aigarius (subscriber, #7329)
In reply to: Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver by THe_ZiPMaN
Parent article: Privilege escalation vulnerability in the NVidia binary driver

The particular exploit code is not working anymore, but because there is an actual oops this means that the actual bug is not fixed and competent hackers can write a new exploit on the same bug. Or at least try to.

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