Messages in this thread | | | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.22-pre7: are security issues solved? | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:56:47 +1000 |
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Aschwin Marsman <a.marsman@aynik.com> wrote: > >> CAN-2003-0461: /proc/tty/driver/serial reveals the exact character counts >> for serial links. This could be used by a local attacker to infer password >> lengths and inter-keystroke timings during password entry.
What's the problem with exposing those counters? Are we going to restrict access to /proc/interrupts and network interface counters too? -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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