Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:52:09 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] skge 0000:02:05: read data parity error |
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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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