ATI + Vista = Insecurity

It’s bad enough that there aren’t enough Vista drivers for all peripherals. Now, having some of those drivers is worse. Apparently, preinstalled ATI drivers can open the Vista kernel to arbitrary memory writes. The problem isn’t limited to 32-bit Windows Vista, but also affects the 64-bit version, which kernel is supposed to sacrosanct. The buggy ATI [driver], while signed, is flawed in such a way that criminals or hackers could load unsigned drivers directly to the kernel Read more.