Quoting Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:15:15 -0500):
> "Kobajashi Zaghi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I would like to know, that these following "vulnerabilities" does > > affect FreeBSD's reliability? If the answer is "yes", what version of > > FreeBSD affected, when will be fixed, etc. > > > > http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-12-01-2007.html > > http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-10-01-2007.html > > These folks are establishing themselves as careless, alarmist, and > uneducated when it comes to kernel bugs. > > In FreeBSD, the above mentioned flaws can, indeed, cause a kernel panic. > However, this is intended behaviour when a corrupt filesystem is > encountered. It protects the system from serious damage that could > result from trying to work with the corrupt filesystem. > > The difference, that the info-pull folks seem to be too stupid to > understand, is that FreeBSD does not allow mounting of filesystems > by anyone other than root. Except root did set the sysctl to allow this, or started a HAL daemon which mounts stuff for the desktop user, or uses amd to mount stuff. Bye, Alexander. -- Lt. Dan: "Have you found Jesus yet Gump?" Forrest Gump: "I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him - Sir!" http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
