From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] About CVE-2016-4484: - Cryptsetup Initrd root Shell
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 00:52:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161115235254.GA13171@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10ad5d6f-faf4-e71e-d528-67054db1f4ae@whgl.uni-frankfurt.de>
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 00:28:50 CET, Sven Eschenberg wrote:
[...]
> The CVE however assumed, that you can not simply access the internal
> parts of the machine. Still, more fuzz than substance in that CVE,
> if you ask me.
My take also. Probably some ego-boosting going on
somewhere in this affair. The whole set-up seems
contrieved to me and not of general applicability
enough to make this a CVE or even a real defect.
At best, I see a mild violation of the "Principle of
least surprise". Anybody that really needs the
"security" the fix provides has far bigger problems.
Regards,
Arno
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-15 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-15 12:34 [dm-crypt] About CVE-2016-4484: - Cryptsetup Initrd root Shell Milan Broz
2016-11-15 13:27 ` Arno Wagner
2016-11-15 13:32 ` Sven Eschenberg
2016-11-15 15:18 ` Robert Nichols
2016-11-15 18:40 ` Sven Eschenberg
2016-11-15 19:19 ` Robert Nichols
2016-11-15 19:42 ` Sven Eschenberg
2016-11-15 22:51 ` Robert Nichols
2016-11-15 23:15 ` Michael Kjörling
2016-11-15 23:28 ` Sven Eschenberg
2016-11-15 23:52 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2016-11-16 0:08 ` Jonas Meurer
2016-11-16 1:15 ` Sven Eschenberg
2016-11-16 7:32 ` Milan Broz
2016-11-16 13:48 ` Arno Wagner
2016-11-29 14:56 ` David Niklas
2016-12-07 11:37 ` Jonas Meurer
2016-12-07 13:00 ` Arno Wagner
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