Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:58:39 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Subject: Re: UFS Bug: FreeBSD 6.1/6.2/7.0: MOKB-08-11-2006, CVE-2006-5824, MOKB-03-11-2006, CVE-2006-5679 Message-ID: <4567791F.9070102@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <200611242042.aa66912@boole.maths.tcd.ie>
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David Malone wrote: >>These two bugs are shown for FreeBSD only and I guess, Solaris and other >>BSDs still use UFS. Are they more robust against this exploit or type >>of exploit? > > > I don't know of a concerted effort by anyone to improve UFS in this > way. I would guess that the odd bug would have been resolved, but > no large scale work. > > David. Another thing to keep in mind is that filesystem mounting is only available to the super-user. If a feature came along such as automatically mounting USB drives, these bugs would indeed be critical. But for now, they are not. Scotthome | help
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