[elrepo] Announcement: EL5/EL6 CVE-2012-0946 Security Vulnerability fixed in NVIDIA driver 295.40

[Phil Perry]

Announcing the immediate release of updated kmod-nvidia packages in the 
EL5 and EL6 elrepo repositories.

These packages fix a security vulnerability (CVE-2012-0946) in the 
NVIDIA UNIX driver. Please see here for more information:

http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=255
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=178006
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3109


The following packages are currently syncing to the mirrors.

*EL5*
kmod-nvidia-295.40-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
kmod-nvidia-PAE-295.40-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
kmod-nvidia-295.40-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-295.40-1.el5.elrepo.i386.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-295.40-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-295.40-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

*EL6*
kmod-nvidia-295.40-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
kmod-nvidia-295.40-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-295.40-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-295.40-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-295.40-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

These releases are built to depend upon the specific ABI provided by a 
range of releases of the same variant of the Linux kernel and not on any 
one specific build.

You can update your system by:

yum update kmod-nvidia

Please reboot your system after applying this update.


Thank you,

The ELRepo Team.