Karim Yaghmour wrote: > I red the following ominous warning excerpt in the Wiki: > In addition, the 3D driver leaves your system open for attack by malicious > clients, > and furthermore, applications that accelerate mpeg2 and mpeg4 must be run as > root, > which is a very bad idea if they contain vulnerabilities (and they do). > > Now, based on what I've seen of said drivers, I'm inclined to believe > this. That said, though, I'm wondering if there's any place I could > find any more info about this. Mainly, I'm wondering if using said > drivers for 2D only "avoids" the security problems and/or if there's a > way to disable the 3D stuff to the drivers _palatable_. > afaiu, only their closed source hw mpeg library needs root privileges to run. 3D driver is/should be safe. But I'm not an expert when it comes to VIA *cough* driver *cought*...
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