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SubjectAnother backdoor to secure mode
We all know back door number one: modules.  There is another one the
IOPL and IOPERM system calls. If I am not wrong nothing impedes a
privileged program of writing directly to disk with these calls. Of
course it will to know about disk handling and file system layout.

The problem is: X windows needs these calls, so if you forbid them in
secure mode then bye bye X.

I am unsubscribing from the mail list due to holidays so CC comments to
my personal address.

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Jean Francois Martinez

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