From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:00:42 +0000
Subject: Re: [security] Race condition in udev
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 07:41:34PM +0200, Florian Zumbiehl wrote:
> Anyhow, the current code does potentially allow more access than one
> would expect when interpreting udev's configuration using the
> well-known semantics of unix permissions, which is kindof worse
> than "just not working".

Again, you have failed to show how this would happen, given udev's
existing rules that all distros ship.

Until you do that, this thread is going nowhere.

thanks,

greg k-h