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Old 2nd August 2012
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Default Vulnerability in proprietary NVIDIA driver for Linux

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Linux kernel and X.org developer Dave Airlie has published a program that exploits a vulnerability in NVIDIA's proprietary graphics driver on Linux to give root privileges to an arbitrary user on the system.
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