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

[Phil Schaffner]

Phil Perry wrote on 04/21/2012 03:06 PM:
> 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) ?
>

I don't have the G80 or older cards the original report cites, but no 
problems discernible on:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 
8600GT] (rev a1)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce GTS 
250] (rev a2)