Re: [XFree86] Re: Security in new drivers

2003-02-14 Thread John Bartoszewski
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:19:35PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, John Bartoszewski wrote: Heard comments from whom? And what specific security problems? What source code files are these problems in? Or are they just what-if rumors? The sources at the time could not

Re: [XFree86] Re: Security in new drivers

2003-02-13 Thread Aidan Kehoe
Ar an 12ú lá de mí 2, scríobh Mike A. Harris : Anything short of a specific example of a real security problem is nothing more than heresy. Don't get all dogmatic about it, Mike :-) . (Yes, you meant hearsay.) -- I have heard the swelling cry of the English speaking peoples of the

RE: [XFree86] Re: Security in new drivers

2003-02-13 Thread Cynthia Grossen
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 8:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [XFree86] Re: Security in new drivers On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, John Bartoszewski wrote: I've heard comments from various people that in some drivers for new cards that there are local

[XFree86] Re: Security in new drivers

2003-02-12 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, John Bartoszewski wrote: I've heard comments from various people that in some drivers for new cards that there are local security problems. The example that was brought up was the driver for the Radeon 7000 being able to write any where in memory and therefor compromise