From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
To: Ben Ford <ben@kalifornia.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disturbing news..
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:02:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AC2EC2F.BA7B4868@idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01032806093901.11349@tabby> <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010328144551.7198A-100000@laertes> <F6Om1QA+9ew6EwTq@sis-domain.demon.co.uk> <20010328100440.A5941@zalem.puupuu.org> <ZEABaXAGggw6EwTH@sis-domain.demon.co.uk> <3AC1D1B8.9080507@kalifornia.com>
Ben Ford wrote:
>
> There are two problems I see here. First, there are several known ways
> to elevate privileges.
Fixable, except from guessing the root password which is hard.
> If a virus can elevate privileges, then it owns
> you. Second, this is a multi-OS virus. If you dual-boot into Windows,
> any ELF files accessible can be infected. With this one, that isn't a
> prob, but when somebody codes in an ext2 driver to their virus, then
> we've got issues.
And the only cure then is not make your linux fs accessible from
windows. I.e. not on a disk for which windows have a driver
installed. Preferably not the same computer.
Or simply "don't run untrusted executables under windows". Do
so in linux only, where protection applies. Do anybody ever
_need_ to run a program they got in the mail?
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-29 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-27 21:29 [PATCH] mm/memory.c, 2.4.1 : memory leak with swap cache (updated) Richard Jerrell
2001-03-27 21:18 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-27 23:10 ` Richard Jerrell
2001-03-27 22:57 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-28 0:53 ` Ideas for the oom problem james
2001-03-28 0:52 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-28 1:14 ` Doug Ledford
2001-03-28 3:21 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-28 3:41 ` Doug Ledford
2001-03-28 3:53 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-28 1:39 ` james
2001-03-28 5:52 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-03-28 6:16 ` Disturbing news Shawn Starr
2001-03-28 6:33 ` Disturbing news.. Idea Shawn Starr
2001-04-21 0:43 ` Serious Latency problems : 2.4.4-pre5 Shawn Starr
2001-03-28 7:19 ` Disturbing news Matti Aarnio
2001-03-28 7:27 ` Shawn Starr
2001-03-28 12:08 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-03-28 5:50 ` Ben Ford
2001-03-28 12:50 ` Walter Hofmann
2001-03-28 14:04 ` Simon Williams
2001-03-28 15:04 ` Olivier Galibert
2001-03-28 15:49 ` Simon Williams
2001-03-28 11:57 ` Ben Ford
2001-03-29 8:02 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2001-03-28 17:51 ` Olivier Galibert
2001-03-28 12:53 ` Keith Owens
2001-03-28 13:00 ` Russell King
2001-03-28 14:10 ` Sean Hunter
2001-03-28 15:36 ` john slee
2001-03-28 16:18 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-04-02 23:10 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-03-28 17:29 ` Horst von Brand
2001-03-28 10:00 ` Helge Hafting
2001-03-28 13:25 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-28 14:32 ` Romano Giannetti
2001-03-28 14:57 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2001-03-28 14:57 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-28 16:14 ` Romano Giannetti
2001-03-28 14:38 ` Ideas for the oom problem Hacksaw
2001-03-28 15:56 ` Andreas Rogge
2001-03-28 23:33 ` Hacksaw
2001-03-28 23:47 ` Tim Haynes
2001-03-29 0:12 ` Hacksaw
2001-03-27 21:51 ` [PATCH] mm/memory.c, 2.4.1 : memory leak with swap cache (updated) Linus Torvalds
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-28 14:15 Disturbing news Jesse Pollard
2001-03-28 14:53 ` Russell King
2001-03-28 14:40 Jesse Pollard
2001-03-28 15:08 ` Russell King
2001-03-29 12:05 ` Walter Hofmann
2001-03-28 14:43 Jesse Pollard
2001-03-28 15:31 Jesse Pollard
2001-03-28 15:43 Jesse Pollard
2001-03-28 15:51 Jesse Pollard
2001-03-28 15:54 ` rmk
2001-03-28 21:19 ` Gerhard Mack
2001-03-29 17:10 Jesse Pollard
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