On 23 October 2015 at 19:16, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard Melville wrote: >> >> On 23 October 2015 at 17:47, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Richard Melville wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm currently doing a security audit on all my LFS systems and I found >>>> that one is running udev-181. The question is: are there any security >>>> issues linked with that version of udev? I've searched the Web and I >>>> haven't found anything untoward, but maybe somebody here knows better. >>>> The system runs OK. >>> >>> >>> >>> It's really hard to say since udev was merged with systemd, the issues >>> are >>> just lumped together. >>> >>> You probably could update to eudev without problems. >> >> >> >> From what I can see udev has a different structure from eudev, for >> example, I can't see any udev hwdb files. Is that going to cause me >> problems or is it hard to say? > > > My system has /etc/udev/hwdb.bin: > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 6.5M Sep 7 18:02 hwdb.bin
That's interesting; mine doesn't, and yet everything appears to work as expected. Is your system in question using udev rather than eudev? I've looked back in the book to LFS-7.1 (my old version I'm working on) and it doesn't mention udev having hwdb files. Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
