ex tempore

Earlier today it become public that there is a security hole, and an exploit to it, in some versions of the (closed source) nvidia graphics driver. Users of Foresight Linux, with an up to date system are **not** affected, since this is an issue that is fixed (according to nvidia) in the version of the drivers we currently ship. Users of earlier versions of the driver (and which for one reason or another can ‘t or wont wish to upgrade should edit they ‘re xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and disable RenderAccel by changing the corresponding line to … Option “RenderAccel” “False”. That will ‘close’ the issue.