[OpenIndiana-discuss] warning: new thunberbird crashes nvidia and nvidia-470 (works with nvidia-390)

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Thu Oct 5 17:01:49 UTC 2023


On 10/5/23 09:53, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> If a mere client application can cause the display server to crash, might this 
> appear to be a severe security issue?

We only saw application crashes here, not the display server.  (Remember
that the nvidia packages include not just the kernel & Xorg drivers, but
also the OpenGL libraries loaded into applications on the X client side.)

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