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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-25 Normal: NVIDIA Driver Vulnerability Exploit

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2007
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A vulnerability has been discovered in the NVIDIA graphic drivers, allowing for a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200708-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: NVIDIA drivers: Denial of Service Date: August 19, 2007 Bugs: #183567 ID: 200708-14

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been discovered in the NVIDIA graphic drivers, allowing for a Denial of Service.
Background ========= The NVIDIA drivers provide support for NVIDIA graphic boards.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers < 100.14.09 >= 100.14.09 *>= 1.0.9639 *>= 1.0.7185
========== Gregory Shikhman discovered that the defau...

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