From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft ZERO Sector Virus, Result of Taskfile WAR
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 22:31:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010306223151.W2803@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010306214838.V2803@suse.de> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103061255301.13719-100000@master.linux-ide.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103061255301.13719-100000@master.linux-ide.org>; from andre@linux-ide.org on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:59:37PM -0800
On Tue, Mar 06 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > But I might want to do this (write sector 0), why would we want
> > to filter that? If someone a) uses an email client that will execute
> > java script code (or whatever) and b) runs that as root (which
> > he would have to do, surely no ordinary user has privileges to send
> > arbitrary commands) then he gets what he deserves.
>
> Jens we are not going there....the filter is the only way known to jam
> unknown commands, and you missed the point of the issue then and I think
> you still miss it. "arbitrary commands" + wrong hander is lock-up.
I'm perfectly aware of the handler issue. So make it part of the
user space taskfile interface in a nice way, done and done. And I
knew I shouldn't have replied to this, the last thing I want to do
is start another flamewar :-)
So EOD from me.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-06 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-06 20:10 Microsoft ZERO Sector Virus, Result of Taskfile WAR Andre Hedrick
2001-03-06 20:44 ` Mike Dresser
2001-03-06 20:55 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-06 20:48 ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-06 20:59 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-06 21:23 ` James A. Sutherland
2001-03-06 21:26 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-06 21:31 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-03-06 21:35 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-07 5:30 ` J. Dow
2001-03-07 12:21 ` Harvey Fishman
2001-03-07 20:32 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-07 20:58 ` Craig Ruff
2001-03-07 21:15 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-07 22:05 ` Craig Ruff
2001-03-07 22:35 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-07 22:41 ` Craig Ruff
2001-03-07 21:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
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2001-03-07 22:09 Andries.Brouwer
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