*Serious* security problem with nVidia binary driver

[Andy Green <andy warmcat com>]

''A recent security advisory announced today by Rapid7 explains, "the 
NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux is vulnerable to a buffer 
overflow that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as root. This bug 
can be exploited both locally or remotely (via a remote X client or an X 
client which visits a malicious web page). A working proof-of-concept 
root exploit is attached to this advisory."  ...''

http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228

Good time to try the nv driver!

-Andy