----- O. Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is for these UFS bugs in FreeBSD since 6.1 a fix uderway? > > See: > > http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/ > > MOKB-08-11-2006,CVE-2006-5824, MOKB-03-11-2006,CVE-2006-5679 >
Probably not. In both cases a "crafted filesystem" is mounted to trigger crash. Garbage in, garbage out. It is hardly exploitable, since only root can mount filesystems. And only root could "craft" a bogus filesystem to crash the kernel. If you are root, "reboot" is a far faster way to crash the system. What the MOKB people seem to leave out, is: do their "crafted filesystems" pass a "fsck -f"? If fsck says the filesystem is good, then the kernel should not crash. But I suspect that "fsck -f" would fix the filesystem. (BTW, "-f" is mandatory as I suspect that these "crafted filesystems" would have the clean flag set). If "fsck -f" fixes the filesystem, then both of these bugs are bogus. Tom _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
