NVIDIA fixes high severity flaws affecting Windows, Linux devices:
NVIDIA has released security updates to address six security vulnerabilities found in Windows and Linux GPU display drivers, as well as ten additional flaws affecting the NVIDIA Virtual GPU (vGPU) management software.
The vulnerabilities expose Windows and Linux machines to attacks leading to denial of service, escalation of privileges, data tampering, or information disclosure.
All these security bugs require local user access, which means that potential attackers will first have to gain access to vulnerable devices using an additional attack vector.
[...] The full list of security flaws addressed by NVIDIA this month is available in the January 2021 Security Bulletin.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @05:03AM (3 children)
Any and all submissions by Runaway1956 are now suspect of treason. Will not read. Will not comment. This is my last communication on this matter. Runaway1956 needs to be arrested, and convicted, of treason and perfidy.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @05:17AM (1 child)
I concur. We need some way to keep the Eds from accepting insurrectionist subs in order to support the insurrection. Kinda a free peaches conundrum? Shirley janrinok has a solution! Death to Runaway1956! At least five times, to, you know, compensate.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @05:52AM
A big lie! A big lie! A big lie!
Keep repeating it and it will be true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @06:45AM
https://soylentnews.org/~aristarchus/ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @07:08AM (1 child)
What do users with older cards/drivers do? Let's say I use this:
What does that mean for me? Should older drivers be pulled from repos if this is such a serious concern?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 09 2021, @07:55AM
Go here - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/ [nvidia.com]
Feed in your video card, operating system, etc to see which driver is recommended. When I finally landed on the 340 driver page, I found that there is no updated driver.
That 12 1/2 month old driver is the latest of your legacy drivers.
Those more current drivers have incrementally higher driver versions, and they all have a release date of this week.
Apparently, the old cards and drivers don't have the vulnerabilities of the newer cards and drivers.
Face it, three whole generations of hardware and software separate the 340 drivers from the 460 drivers. They share little.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @08:35AM
Oooh juicy! Not as good as the old DMA video card fun times, but still.
Then again, NVIDIA applications are a morass, yet.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Saturday January 09 2021, @12:41PM (4 children)
I've used nVidia cards for some time and still have one on my MythTV frontend (a GT 430 running on an old x86 system). That's relegated to the 390 drivers since nVidia dropped 32 bit support. That was one of the many things that finally made me draw the line with their closed source bullshit.
I just got done building a brand new AMD based system running Gentoo. When I built that I decided to go with a Radeon RX 5500 XT using the AMDGPU kernel drivers and I couldn't be happier with it....bought a new 4K monitor after. VDPAU video decoding is working without a hitch...just awesome. From what I recall hearing, the old Radeon kernel support was pretty bad, but for anyone who hasn't tried, for me at least, the AMDGPU stuff is awesome.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @04:06PM (3 children)
Do AMD cards support computation? How do they performed compared to CUDA? Do they work in MATLAB?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @07:25PM
yes, use openCL. My guess is worse than CUDA, but idk. Don't know about matlab at all. I won't use CUDA or buy nvidia, so these differences don't matter to me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @11:21AM (1 child)
GPGPU stuff is not as good on AMD unfortunately. The problem is that everyone optimizes for CUDA, and barely cares about OpenCL, so things perform worse, so people buy nVidia, so developers optimize for CUDA, so...
On top of that AMD's performance has been legitimately behind nVidia for a couple of generations. This is the first time in a while that AMD has had competitive cards in raw performance, but it doesn't matter because nobody can buy anything.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday January 10 2021, @07:49PM
The AMD Instinct MI100 (CDNA 1.0) should be a big improvement, but it's not a consumer graphics card. YMMV.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#Radeon_Instinct_series [wikipedia.org]
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-mi100-rocm4&num=1 [phoronix.com]
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-ROCm-4.0-Released [phoronix.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @06:53PM
Even for free (freedom) software hostile NVIDIA hardware (at least the older stuff), nouveau drivers are available.
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/ [freedesktop.org]
Better to avoid user hostile hardware though.