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

[Phil Perry]

On 11/04/12 20:19, Phil Perry wrote:
> 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
>
>

NVIDIA have reported that some users are suffering graphical corruption, 
performance degradation and crashes with this update on GeForce 6 and 7 
series as well as GeForce 8800GTX and first-gen 8800GTS cards.

See here for more information:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=178460

I haven't been able to replicate any performance degradation issues with 
kmod-nvidia-295.40-1 on either RHEL-5 or RHEL-6 running glxgears with a 
7600GS card, FPS rates are as usual for me. As it's only a test rig I 
haven't run any other tests or long-term usage to stress the system.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 
GS] (rev a1)

Is anyone else experiencing problems or issues with this release (versus 
the previous release) ?