On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:04:01AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > does anyone know why debian has /dev/fb* with 622 permissions? > > the reason i ask is there is a pretty nasty security problem with > this, try the following: > > cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0 > > on my system i get a instant kernel panic (2.2.17 from ftp.kernel.org). > since the framebuffer devices are world writable anyone with a shell > account can crash the system, not nice. (i have a blue G3 using > aty128fb) > > what is broken by setting the permissions on all the framebuffer > devices to 0600 ? >
Doesn't crash my i386 (riva tnt2, XF4) - but does put pretty colors over
the top 1/3 of the screen before cat exits with "write error: No space left on
device".
Chris
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