From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net>
Cc: unlisted-recipients:"; (no To-header on input) Horms"
<horms@verge.net.au>,
security@kernel.org, team@security.debian.org,
334113@bugs.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rudolf Polzer <debian-ne@durchnull.de>,
Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>,
secure-testing-team@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Secure-testing-team] Re: kernel allows loadkeys to be used by any user, allowing for local root compromise
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:00:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3slux22le.fsf@defiant.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4355C812.80103@derobert.net> (Anthony DeRobertis's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:14:10 -0400")
Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net> writes:
> Well, you can configure a single vty to only allow logins from admins.
> Then you avoid the fake login problem, but not the loadkeys problem
> (since that affects all vtys)
Just a guess... Can you use loadkeys to change keys used for switching VTs?
I would investigate switchvt (or how is it named) too.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-19 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-10-18 4:41 ` kernel allows loadkeys to be used by any user, allowing for local root compromise Horms
2005-10-18 6:52 ` [Security] " Andrew Morton
2005-10-18 8:59 ` Horms
2005-10-18 14:42 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-10-18 17:16 ` Rudolf Polzer
2005-10-18 18:41 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-10-18 20:49 ` Rudolf Polzer
2005-10-19 11:18 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-10-19 13:23 ` Rudolf Polzer
2005-10-19 19:32 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-10-19 20:24 ` Rudolf Polzer
2005-10-19 22:57 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-10-19 23:12 ` Rudolf Polzer
2005-10-20 15:05 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-10-19 4:14 ` [Secure-testing-team] " Anthony DeRobertis
2005-10-19 11:00 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2005-10-20 2:42 ` Paul Jakma
2005-10-20 23:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-10-18 21:19 ` [Secure-testing-team] " Moritz Muehlenhoff
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