From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:49:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009112249.03770.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100911212813.3757106d@scooter.muppet.show>
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:28 on Saturday 11 September 2010, Etaoin
Shrdlu did opine thusly:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:35:58 -0500 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If they are accessible by a user, couldn't a user then edit or add
> > something that would then cause a security problem? If they can edit
> > them and no one know it, then root comes along and builds a shiney new
> > kernel with a really nice security hole.
>
> This was actually a potential risk once upon a time:
>
> http://attrition.org/security/advisory/gobbles/GOBBLES-16.txt
More like an actual risk all the time. Which is why:
# ls -al /usr/src/
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 136 2010-09-01 11:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 480 2010-08-23 01:44 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-06-17 19:37 .keep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2010-09-01 11:30 linux -> linux-2.6.35-ck-r2
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 1584 2010-09-01 02:12 linux-2.6.35-ck-r2
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-11 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-11 8:24 [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ? Stéphane Guedon
2010-09-11 9:46 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-09-11 10:41 ` Stéphane Guedon
2010-09-11 13:43 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-09-11 15:53 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-09-11 20:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 20:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-11 20:51 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 21:05 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-12 8:14 ` Stéphane Guedon
2010-09-11 20:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2010-09-11 20:28 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-11 20:49 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-09-11 22:05 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-11 22:03 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-11 23:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-11 23:15 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] " Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-12 9:16 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-12 10:24 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-12 16:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Al
2010-09-11 20:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-11 20:49 ` Dale
2010-09-11 21:01 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-11 21:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 21:47 ` Dale
2010-09-11 23:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-12 16:59 ` walt
2010-09-11 17:59 ` Nikos Chantziaras
[not found] <frufU-519-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <frvbX-6Dv-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2010-09-12 7:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Gregory Shearman
2010-09-12 16:36 ` Bill Longman
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