Wow! Lots of kernel flaws...
Gilbert Sebenste
sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu
Thu Nov 23 00:29:49 UTC 2006
Hi Steve,
> I am one of the authors that wrote the filesystem fuzzing tool that found most
> of the problems you mention. We are working through the bugs it found and
> already have bugzillas for the affected file systems. Dave Jones has already
> released one kernel that fixes some of the problems.
>
> If you are the paranoid type, you can fix gnome-volume-manager to not load
> external disks. You either have to have physical access to the machine or
> root to take advantage of the flaws.
When it comes to system administration, I try to lean toward paranoid. :-)
But, in either case, again, this is good to know. Thanks! Let's hope that
nothing else they find becomes a remote exploit.
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