MDVA-2009:084 : x11-driver-video-intel

high Nessus Plugin ID 47921

Synopsis

The remote Mandriva host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The intel graphics driver shipped in 2009.1 was the 2.7.0 version which has turned out to be somewhat unstable on some systems (this was still more stable overall than earlier versions, but hardly any consolation to those having problems!).

This updates the package to the 2.7.1 version recently released by intel and fixes several crashers. The number of changes is quite small, so hopefully minimises any chances of unexpected regressions.

Here follows the advisory text from the upstream Intel maintainers:

This is a maintenance release on the 2.7 branch. Compared to 2.7.0 it consists only of a few carefully hand-picked fixes for bugs, (including GPU crashers). We encourage all users of 2.7.0 to upgrade to 2.7.1.

We have verified that several of the reported bugs of GPU crashes, (mouse continues to move, but otherwise X is totally unresponsive), are fixed with the commit by Keith Packard in 2.7.1 to correct the computation of the batch space required. If you have previously reported a GPU-crash bug in bugs.freedesktop.org, please test with 2.7.1 and report your findings in the bug. If the crash is fixed, please celebrate with us!

If the crash persists, please attach the output of intel_gpu_dump available here (and hopefully packaged in your distribution of choice soon)

Please note that the intel_gpu_dump utility refered to above is now available for 2009.1 via contrib/updates in the intel-gpu-tools pacakge.

Solution

Update the affected package(s).

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 47921

File Name: mandriva_MDVA-2009-084.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Family: Mandriva Local Security Checks

Published: 7/30/2010

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:mandriva:linux

Required KB Items: Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/27/2009

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