On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Andrew Thompson wrote: > > ifconfig will cause the media status to be read from the hardware at > > which time the link change is generated as it is different to the stored > > value. > > Shouldn't that be considered a security flaw? After all, > you can perform "ifconfig $IF" inside a jail to list the > interface configuration, but you're not allowed to make > any changes. > > Given your description above, it means that it is possible > to modify the interface configuration (cause a failover) > from within a jail. That's not good. I think that needs > to be fixed, or at the very least it needs to be properly > documented.
I can't see how this is a security flaw. The link is already down; ifconfig is merely updating the OS' knowlege of the link status to be closer to reality. David Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
