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Old 13th April 2012
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Default Security vulnerability in NVIDIA's proprietary Linux drivers fixed

From http://h-online.com/-1520095

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A new version of NVIDIA's proprietary UNIX graphics drivers for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD fixes a security vulnerability (CVE-2012-0946) that allowed attackers to read and write arbitrary system memory in order to, for example, obtain root privileges.
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