On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:41:52PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pint?r Oliv?r) wrote: > On 1/14/08, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:31:03PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pint?r Oliv?r) > > wrote: > > > I think, it is a potential security breakpoint, when applications with > > > root permission its read, then a machine is freezed, or only i thin > > > it's? > > > > When you are root there are infinite ways to kill your machine, so > > there's nothing security related about this issue. > > Yes, i know, but when some application or daemons read some file with > running root privileges, then ...
It's always been that way, this is nothing new. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
