Gentoo: GLSA-200611-03 High: NVIDIA Graphics Driver Privilege Escalation
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November 7, 2006
The NVIDIA binary graphics driver is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation through an X session.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200611-03
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: NVIDIA binary graphics driver: Privilege escalation
vulnerability
Date: November 07, 2006
Bugs: #151635
ID: 200611-03
Synopsis
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The NVIDIA binary graphics driver is vulnerable to a local privilege
escalation through an X session.
Background
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The NVIDIA binary graphics driver from NVIDIA Corporation provides the
kernel module and the GL modules for graphic acceleration on the NVIDIA
based graphic cards.
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