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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Use Windows | +5 Insightful by h910 · 2012-08-01 05:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Use Windows and you don't get linux malware. True story, mod +5 true accordingly.
1. Re:Use Windows | +5 Insightful by broginator · 2012-08-01 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That's like saying "Drive Fords, that way you won't crash in a Chevy."
  
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Re:Open Source Advantage by Dagger2 · 2012-08-01 05:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Clearly the proprietary driver is much better then, since it allows me to do whatever I like with your computer.