nVidia security flaw, fixed in updated driver

Bug #980002 reported by Heimen Stoffels
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #959842: root escalation via /dev/nvidia0. Edit Remove
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA4NTk

They've also released a patch to fix older drivers. This only applies to 12.04, I guess.

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