Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:41:39 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | I QUIT (Re: IDE drive killer question) |
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Enrico Demarin wrote:
> > I would like to understand better the scope of the IDE-fry-drive issue: > > 1) how is going Andre's patch to protect from the case where > the malicious user compiles a kernel module (or recompiles the kernel), > eliminating his patch. > > As far as i can understand the patch would work only if the malicious > user gaining rood can't compile a kernel module or get a fresh kernel > source rebuild it without the patch and run it. that is no kernel-source, > no compilers, no ftp access to download compilers and kernel source, or > pre-compiled modules. > > The only case where it would help would be to prevent some buffer overflow > to a root process or some trojan horse to do the dirty job automatically.
I do not understand........
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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