Re: [Full-disclosure] Most Linux distributions don't use tmpfs nor encrypt swap by default

2012-04-17 Thread Mark Krenz
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 02:57:33PM GMT, Pedro Martelletto [pe...@ambientworks.net] said the following: I know OpenBSD has an encrypt swapfs setting on its rc.conf file though not activated by default. i believe it is activated by default: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvsm=85331505174

Re: [Full-disclosure] Most Linux distributions don't use tmpfs nor encrypt swap by default

2012-04-13 Thread Mark Krenz
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:53:47PM GMT, Grandma Eubanks [tborla...@gmail.com] said the following: Fedora Core 15: /dev/mapper/vg_youwish-lv_swap swapswap defaults0 0 tmpfs /tmptmpfs defaults0 0 Removed other

[Full-disclosure] Most Linux distributions don't use tmpfs nor encrypt swap by default

2012-04-12 Thread Mark Krenz
Hello. After posting the flaw with libvte's handling of the scrollback buffer (writing it to disk), there were several people who made the erroneous claim that most distributions of Linux use tmpfs now and encrypt swap and that this shouldn't be an issue. Because these claims attempted to

Re: [Full-disclosure] gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, terminator and others write scrollback buffer to disk

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Krenz
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 01:12:04AM GMT, coderman [coder...@gmail.com] said the following: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Mark Krenz m...@suso.com wrote: Title: Gnome terminal, xfce4-terminal, terminator and other libVTE based       terminals write scrollback buffer data to /tmp filesystem

[Full-disclosure] gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, terminator and others write scrollback buffer to disk

2012-03-06 Thread Mark Krenz
Title: Gnome terminal, xfce4-terminal, terminator and other libVTE based terminals write scrollback buffer data to /tmp filesystem Report date: 2011-03-06 Reported by: Mark Krenz Severity: High depending on use and expectations Software: libVTE v0.21.6 and later (since September 17th