Proprietary Nvidia Linux Driver Contains Privilege Escalation Hole

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday August 1, 2012 @05:31AM from the rms-gazes-upon-you-smugly dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Nvidia binary driver has been exploited by an anonymous hacker, who reported it to nvidia months ago and it was never fixed. Now the exploit was made public." The one releasing the exploit (relayed to him anonymously) is David Arlie, well known X hacker. The bug lets the attacker write to any part of memory on the system by shifting the VGA window; the attached exploit uses this to attain superuser privileges. It appears that this has been known to Nvidia for at least a month.

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Woohoo! Nvidia drivers rock! by MatthiasF · 2012-08-01 05:34 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Obligatory fanboy zing.
Who did he send it to at Nvidia? by Meshach · 2012-08-01 05:41 · Score: -1, Flamebait

So no one at Nvidia replied when some random joe off the street sent flimsy evidence of a vague exploit to them unsolicited? Can't say I am surprised...

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