Scott Long wrote: > O. Hartmann wrote: >> Scott Long wrote: >>> Kevin Oberman wrote: >>>>> 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. >>> Would it be possible to restrict Gnome to only auto-mounting msdos and >>> cd9660 filesystems? >>> >>> Scott >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> Sorry, if my question may sound heretic, but wouldn't it be more >> sophisticated solving the problem instead of disabling everything what >> could trigger the bug? > > Yup. Who do you have in mind to do it? > > Scott Well, this is a good question :-( I would like to do it if the following prerequisites would be applicable:
I'm familiar with OS development (no) I'm familiar with C, very close to driver layer and UFS (no) I'm willing to work for a OpenSource project (yes, of course, I use FreeBSD in scientific environment now for more than 10 years) On the other hand, Scott, where are all the Kernel developer has been gone to? Oliver _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
