[7903] in bugtraq
Re: Reading read-protected devices in *BSD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eivind Eklund)
Sun Sep 6 22:00:08 1998
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 03:26:56 +0200
Reply-To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@YES.NO>
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@YES.NO>
X-To: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@COURTESAN.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199809061819.MAA18941@xerxes.courtesan.com>; from Todd C. Miller
on Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 12:19:54PM -0600
On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 12:19:54PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> Note that in OpenBSD only the superuser may mount filesystems
> by default. This can be changed by setting the kern.usermount
> sysctl to 1.
The same goes for FreeBSD, actually. Also, the problem is (as far as
I'm able to tell) only relevant for FreeBSD-current, not -stable or
the releases - ie, 2.2.* does not seem vulnerable.
Eivind.
