Nvidia driver security issue

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Nvidia driver security issue

Post by pschaff » 2012/04/12 23:05:29

[url=http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=1542&st=0&#entry10624]Somewhere[/url] somebody :-D wrote:

If you are using the Nvidia driver, please read on.

Nvidia just released an update to the Nvidia Unix driver (version [b]295.40[/b]) that addressed a known [b]security vulnerability[/b] (CVE-2012-0946). Please see [url=http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=178006]their announcement[/url] for details.

If you have installed the Nvidia driver through ELRepo, updating to the current version is as easy as:

yum --enablerepo=elrepo update kmod-nvidia

and reboot.

See also this [url=http://elrepoproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/nvidia-driver-that-fixes-security.html]ELRepo blog[/url].

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