Security Vulnerability in proprietary NVIDIA driver for Linux

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2nd August 2012

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Vulnerability in proprietary NVIDIA driver for Linux

From http://h-online.com/-1658318

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Linux kernel and X.org developer Dave Airlie has published a program that exploits a vulnerability in NVIDIA's proprietary graphics driver on Linux to give root privileges to an arbitrary user on the system.

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