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Nvidia Has Linux Security Hole

Aug 22, 2007, 12:45 (0 Talkback[s])

"An advisory from a security researcher called Gregory Shikhman points out that Nvidia drivers have a rather gaping hole when installed under Gentoo Linux...

"The X-11 drivers, provided to make the green team's graphics boards work under the popular Linux distro, install--by default--with a bad set of file permissions in the standard /dev/nvidia* directory..."

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