From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 15:35:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B3416A4CE for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 15:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from et.endace.com (et.endace.com [219.88.101.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1DDE43D1F for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 15:35:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard@endace.com) Received: from muon.et.endace.com (muon.et.endace.com [192.168.64.11]) by et.endace.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4QMZJGl035889 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 10:35:19 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0)i4QManFg026397 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 10:36:49 +1200 Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:36:48 +1200 From: Richard Stevenson To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: Comments: PGP Public Key on keyservers: Key ID FA6D9719 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Scanned-By: milter-gris/0.1.14 (et.endace.com [192.168.64.254]); Thu, 27 May 2004 10:35:19 +1200 X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040408, clamav-milter version 0.70g Subject: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 22:35:47 -0000 Hi all I've got a quick question about the most recent security advisory, FreeBSD-SA-04:11.msync. I'm trying to figure out how big an issue it is (whether or not I need to stop everyone's access to the file server until it's patched), given that we've got no "untrusted" users on our systems. Does anyone know if it's possible for a user to trigger this problem unintentionally or accidentally? Cheers Richard -- Richard Stevenson