Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Nvidia rooted by Linux graphics bug

Nvidia supplied two graphic drivers for Linux - a closed source "binary blob" driver, which is subject to the vulnerability, and an open source driver, which is not subject to the bug. However, the open source driver lacks the acceleration features found in the closed source driver.


HEY! I gotta idea. Lets take out all those wasteful range and error checks and make this baby fly!

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