Blobs are Bad

A recent security advisory announced today by Rapid7 explains, "the NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as root... Here's a good real-life example of why blobs are bad. For those that take the "pragmatic" approach and don't understand what all the fuss is about.

Read the post in undeadly.org, Rapid7 advisory (the bug reporter), related post in kerneltrap and slashdot discussion.