[elrepo] Announcement: EL5/EL6 CVE-2012-0946 Security Vulnerability fixed in NVIDIA driver 295.40
Phil Perry
phil at elrepo.org
Wed Apr 11 15:19:18 EDT 2012
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.
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