Owners of GeForce 600 Series Warning

Owners of GeForce 600 Series graphics cards should be forewarned that the Nvidia Tesla 470 driver release may result in a crashed installation. This can occur with the Debian Tesla driver package or the nvidia-installer. I suffered crashes using both methods. Not all old GeForce cards are affect

Re: Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

t any? On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Stan Katz wrote: > When I first experienced "promiscuous" escalation of etc mode from 755 to > 600 (at least 8 to 10 years ago) I hunted down a reference by someone that > this could happen if the lpd daemon was compromised. I stopped usi

Re: Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

irdness based on unexpected /etc privs and bastille? > > Best regards, > -Chris > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> On Wednesday 11 February 2009 23:26:45 Stan Katz wrote: >> >> >>> I updated/upgraded both my AMD64 and AMD k6 "Etch" machine

Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

I updated/upgraded both my AMD64 and AMD k6 "Etch" machines between Feb 10-11, 2009 using "Lenny" test. Both picked up a symptom I haven't seen since the lpd exploit of the 1990's. This symptom manifests itself as either a random escalation of the etc directory mode up to 600, or a consistent escal