Re: MOAB advisories

Quoting Bill Moran <wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:15:15 -0500):

"Kobajashi Zaghi" <kobajashi@xxxxxxxxx> 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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