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Re: Remote Root In Nvidia xserver Driver



On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:38:25AM +0100, Nick Boyce wrote:
> Just for the sake of calm (my calm) can anyone else confirm this ?

sorry, no not right now, although I do have a machine out there with this,
I just don't have access to it right now :-(

I do hope that you're right :-) 
and thanks for doing this ...

> NB: although some are saying this is a local root exploit only, the bulletin 
> points out it can be exploited by visiting a malicious webpage.

I've not scrutinised the claims closely, 
but it looks like a remote vulnerability to me :-(

Regards,
Paddy
-- 
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall



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