NVIDIA Fixes Linux GPU Driver Security Hole

[mmix]

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTE1Mzk

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140

Days after it was publicly revealed that a security vulnerability in the NVIDIA Linux driver easily yields root system access, NVIDIA has updated their proprietary graphics driver to address this problem.

[doktor5000]

Could you please do a bug report for that security issue? https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly

[mmix]

i am afraid i couldn´t, nvidia provide the solution, and it is closed source.

[doktor5000]

Yes, nvidia provides a fixed driver, and we need to put out updated packages, so we need a bugreport. It seemed like you were interested in getting this fixed, no?

[mmix]

no, i downloaded & installed the package myself.

[mmix]

i wish there is some process like this in mageia team.

wget http://nvidia.com/someplace/nvidia.package

..(some automated bash shell script)..

..(package build)..

[doktor5000]

Well, something like http://onse.fi/nvidia-mgabuild/ ?

Otherwise, you can always download the latest package versions from Mageia SVN and rebuild them for yourself, this is exactly what you're describing.

[mmix]

automate everything,
automate bug report tool must be provided, then everyone who use mageia will be the bug reporter, heh.

[doktor5000]

Automate bug reports against proprietary drivers, eh? Then we just need masses of maintainers/developers who can implement this and wade through the masses of debugging data for all those bugs reports. Not very realistic, if you ask me.

[mmix]

no, it is not about nvidia package,

it is about automated bug report client interface to below link.
https://bugs.mageia.org/

[doktor5000]

Please reread the second part of my reply. Automating the reporting is the least part of the problem/workload.
Without the rest this is just useless, we will have gazillions of bugs reported, and noone to fix them or get hold of the flood of information.

[mmix]

i guess it depend on the client interface.

[Ken-Bergen]

For what's worth I don't want an automatic bug interface popping up went trying to gather information for a report.
Two or three pop ups and I'd walk away.

[mmix]

stable version doesn´t need to be popup something,
alpha,beta version but exception, even with that version, user could turn it on/off if it is sensitive subject.

[doktor5000]

@mmix: Seems you don't understand, this doesn't depend at all on the client interface. The bugs are useless if we have noone to work on them.

And FWIW, those client interfaces already exist, kdebugdialog for KDE and bug-buddy for GNOME. There are other such things, like apport in *buntu,
but this requires server-side integration and also some adaption to our distro. But still, those efforts would be worthless if we don't have much more maintainers/developers.
For hard numbers, just take a look at http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ which is currently showing 2078 unmaintained packages.
So if we can't even properly maintain all of our current packages, and fix the bug reports which are created manually, how could we manage even more automated bug reports?

[mmix]

no, my point is valid,

IMHO, mageia doesn´t need more people, distro maker is not developer.
2078 unmaintained packages are maintained by the package developer almost.
the application is version up every time, most bugs are patched when program version up.
so this kind of bug could be solved by automated build system, remained some kind of bugs are covered by mageia team, with carefully designed client interface.

[doktor5000]

Sure, the distro will develop and update itself. As you seem to know better and as you seem reluctant to explanations, i'll stop at this point.

[n00biest]

I'm not a computer scientist.
I'm absolutly certain that my comp is a colander, like almost each and every comp in this planet.
I really don't care about one more security vulnerability, this one due to NVidia Linux driver.
I keep my 280.13.

Btw : NSA's rubbish.