Well, this incident just enforces Theo de Raadt's (OpenBSD founder) view about binary blobs being a security issue!

Here's a comment from the exploit...

/*

* "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would

* not help."

* - Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager (NVID...

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Here is Nvidia's official response

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971

You can resolve the issue by adding this line:

=> Option "RenderAccel" "False"

...into the xorg.conf

OR

Updating the driver to version 1.0-8776

http://www.nvidia.com/obj...

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Sign this petition www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html...

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