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SubjectRe: [BUG] skge 0000:02:05: read data parity error
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:41:52PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote:
> On 1/14/08, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:31:03PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
> > wrote:
> > > I think, it is a potential security breakpoint, when applications with
> > > root permission its read, then a machine is freezed, or only i thin
> > > it's?
> >
> > When you are root there are infinite ways to kill your machine, so
> > there's nothing security related about this issue.
>
> Yes, i know, but when some application or daemons read some file with
> running root privileges, then ...
>
> thanks, then it is only a "feature" and not bug.

It might be a bug in the application.

But there are worse things than crashing your machine (e.g. getting your
/etc/shadow) that can happen when someone with bad intentions can read
files with root privileges.

> Thanks,
> Oliver

cu
Adrian

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