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Date:      Tue, 02 Jul 2019 18:55:26 -0700
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-19:11.cd_ioctl
Message-ID:  <12532.1562118926@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190703004928.576CA1A7DE@freefall.freebsd.org>

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In message <20190703004928.576CA1A7DE@freefall.freebsd.org>, 
freebsd-security@freebsd.org wrote:

>Topic:          Privilege escalation in cd(4) driver
>...
>devfs.conf(5) and devfs.rules(5) can be used to remove read permissions from
>cd(4) devices.

Would it be accurate to say that another possible workaround would be to
simply remove the optical drive from the system(s) entirely?

(I dunno about anybody else, but I personally don't even hardly use the
bloody things anymore anyway.)




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