Vladimir, thanks for your thoughtful answer. I understand your concerns better now.
On 02/19/2013 10:37 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Suppose blocklist changes because of e.g. user mistake. Yet at the old > location there is still the old core.img. For the time being. So this > problem may go unnoticed for years yet if someone has the ability to > create new files on the disk in question, he creates ton of files with > copies of malicious sector, one of them will overwrite core and be > executed on next reboot. Am I understanding correctly that the user mistake you describe must be some manipulation of "core.img" itself (e.g. running grub2-mkimage but now grub2-setup, which would classify as "mistake" in a blocklist setup)? Martin -- Dr. Martin Wilck PRIMERGY System Software Engineer x86 Server Engineering FUJITSU Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 33106 Paderborn, Germany Phone: ++49 5251 525 2796 Fax: ++49 5251 525 2820 Email: martin.wi...@ts.fujitsu.com Internet: http://ts.fujitsu.com Company Details: http://ts.fujitsu.com/imprint _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
