On Friday, March 09, 2012 07:59:34, Michael Muller wrote: > It looks like plain-old /usr/bin/xterm is not affected, though, and it > should be available universally. Might want to use that for a while if > you're concerned about an exploit.
>From the comments in the Slashdot article, it looks like aterm is also safe. Also, I've noted that right after switching to a Linux 3.2 kernel, /tmp is mounted as a tmpfs filesystem, so anything put there is typically not actually written to disk. [tmpfs is backed by swap however, so there's a chance it might be written to swap.] I've been trying to figure out what is actually mounting /tmp as tempfs... it's not in /etc/fstab so I'm wondering if this is a built-in kernel feature or if it's done during bootup within the initrd image. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Apr 4 - An Intro to Chef May 2 - Git Jun 6 - June 2012 Meeting
