> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:58:39 -0700 > From: Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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.
Not on the base system, but Gnome 2.16 with hald running will mount a removable device automatically. The standard configuration of Gnome runs hald. Allowing user mounts of removable media is even formalized by the addition of /media to hier(7). I'm not sure this should simply be treated as not being significant. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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