MOAB advisories

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Bill Moran <wmoran at collaborativefusion.com> (Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:15:15 -0500):

> "Kobajashi Zaghi" <kobajashi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I would like to know, that these following "vulnerabilities" does
> > affect FreeBSD's reliability? If the answer is "yes", what version of
> > FreeBSD affected, when will be fixed, etc.
> > 
> > http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-12-01-2007.html
> > http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-10-01-2007.html
> 
> These folks are establishing themselves as careless, alarmist, and
> uneducated when it comes to kernel bugs.
> 
> In FreeBSD, the above mentioned flaws can, indeed, cause a kernel panic.
> However, this is intended behaviour when a corrupt filesystem is
> encountered.  It protects the system from serious damage that could
> result from trying to work with the corrupt filesystem.
> 
> The difference, that the info-pull folks seem to be too stupid to
> understand, is that FreeBSD does not allow mounting of filesystems
> by anyone other than root.

Except root did set the sysctl to allow this, or started a HAL daemon
which mounts stuff for the desktop user, or uses amd to mount stuff.

Bye,
Alexander.

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