Local root exploit in NVidia driver
[Posted October 16, 2006 by corbet]
A locally-exploitable buffer overflow in the binary-only NVidia video
driver has been disclosed on the mailing
lists; there is also an
exploit in circulation. This problem may have been known since 2004;
NVidia acknowledged it back in July, but it remains unfixed. It has been
reported that the beta versions of the
drivers do contain the fix.
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