On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Darren Reed wrote: > In recent discussion, the topic of the Xorg server being a huge > security vulnerability because of its DRI model has come up. > > The problem being that you have user space code communicating > with chips in the system and being able to control DMA and what > goes which way on the system bus... Afaik, kernel DRM (*) drivers are supposed (**) not to provide direct control over unsafe features of the hardware (***). (*) Direct Rendering Manager. (**) The "strength of function" is, of course, a different question. (***) See <http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html> --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
