On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Langer, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why is it OK to send X11 2D graphics commands across the network using the > X11 protocol and a security risk to send OpenGL commands across the > network using the X11 protocol? > Hardware OpenGL rendering is already a source of security holes; the driver vendors make no attempt to be secure. Since the driver vendors won't fix their crap (just try making NVidia secure their Linux GPU driver!), there aren't many options. (It's also kinda shocking how many modern browser exploits involve finding cracks in the GPU accelerator process/thread. That is partly unrelated though, as I understand it.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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