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On Wednesday 17 January 2007 20:02, Bernhard Auzinger wrote: |
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> Am Mittwoch 17 Januar 2007 18:24 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: |
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> > if you want to spread FUD, and you are doing it right now, inform |
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> > yourself. Ok? |
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> > |
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> > The fix was there in mere days after NVIDIA got the news. |
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> > |
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> > The firm who reported the 'problem' confused the NVIDIA problem with a |
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> > much older Xorg problem. |
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> I thought the nvidia bug was known for about a year? |
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http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971 |
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In summary, the accurate history of this issue is as follows: |
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NVIDIA was made aware of a problem with our 1.0-8774 driver that caused an X |
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Server crash on July 2006 through a posting on nvnews.net. The problem was |
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not identified as a security risk. |
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We debugged and fixed the issue, and included it, along with many other bug |
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fixes, in the Release 95 series. 1.0-9625 was released on September 21, 2006 |
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as a beta driver on nZone.com |
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http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html. |
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We were informed on Monday, October 16th, that the problem posed a security |
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risk. NVIDIA is releasing an updated driver from our stable Release 85 |
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series, 1.0-8776, on Thursday, October 19, 2006, which includes the bug fix. |
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We encourage users of NVIDIA graphics driver version 1.0-8762 or 1.0-8774 to |
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upgrade to 1.0-8776, available here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html |
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there is a lot more information on that page. It is worth reading it. |
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