Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 11:56 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: 2010/9/20 Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com: On 09/20/2010 06:43 AM, Ralph Loader wrote: After all these years, something from the fedora repos (the only ones I have active in my F14 partition) is still creating an (empty)

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-21 Thread Michał Piotrowski
W dniu 21 września 2010 16:33 użytkownik David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org napisał: On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 11:56 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: 2010/9/20 Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com: On 09/20/2010 06:43 AM, Ralph Loader wrote: After all these years, something from the fedora repos

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-21 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org said: Why on earth would that be critical? The firewall is just a band-aid. If it does anything useful, your system was broken (or infected) already. There are still a number of network daemons that don't have any practical IP ACL setup.

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 15:33 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: Why on earth would that be critical? The firewall is just a band-aid. If it does anything useful, your system was broken (or infected) already. Seriously, if there is *any* case where the lack of firewall would be 'critical', please

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/20/2010 06:43 AM, Ralph Loader wrote: After all these years, something from the fedora repos (the only ones I have active in my F14 partition) is still creating an (empty) /etc/modprobe.conf file. Looks like it's a minor security hole too: Not sure I'd call that minor considering

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/9/20 Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com: On 09/20/2010 06:43 AM, Ralph Loader wrote: After all these years, something from the fedora repos (the only ones I have active in my F14 partition) is still creating an (empty) /etc/modprobe.conf file. Looks like it's a minor security hole too:

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Andre Robatino
Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com writes: After all these years, something from the fedora repos (the only ones I have active in my F14 partition) is still creating an (empty) /etc/modprobe.conf file. It's definitely not the system-config-network bug, since that's now fixed in everything

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:08:43 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: After all these years, something from the fedora repos (the only ones I have active in my F14 partition) is still creating an (empty) /etc/modprobe.conf file. Well, I found something with a grep -r of the whole f14 partition :-).

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:56:56 +0200 Michał Piotrowski wrote: You can blacklist the firewall modules - it can be critical :) Actually, I think you can run any arbitrary command to load a module, so it is probably a gigantic security hole. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/20/2010 01:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:56:56 +0200 Michał Piotrowski wrote: You can blacklist the firewall modules - it can be critical :) Actually, I think you can run any arbitrary command to load a module, so it is probably a gigantic security hole. Kinda

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 08:35 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:08:43 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: After all these years, something from the fedora repos (the only ones I have active in my F14 partition) is still creating an (empty) /etc/modprobe.conf file. Well, I found

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: So, if this bug is valid as described it's a significant security issue. However, I'm not sure it's simple. I've just checked, and none of my F14 test spins (basically RC2) have a modprobe.conf booted live. The clean

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/9/20 Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com: On 09/20/2010 01:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:56:56 +0200 Michał Piotrowski wrote: You can blacklist the firewall modules - it can be critical :) Actually, I think you can run any arbitrary command to load a module, Or pass any

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/9/20 Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: So, if this bug is valid as described it's a significant security issue. However, I'm not sure it's simple. I've just checked, and none of my F14 test spins (basically RC2)

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Andre Robatino
Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com writes: I have some anecdotal evidence. I installed F13 (x86_64) on my dad's computer this weekend. I did not see the empty modprobe.conf until after I did a kernel update. The only packages I updated was the kernel and the firmware package at that time.

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread drago01
2010/9/20 Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com: 2010/9/20 Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com: On 09/20/2010 01:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:56:56 +0200 Michał Piotrowski wrote: You can blacklist the firewall modules - it can be critical :) Actually, I think you can run any

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:49:30 +0100 Adam Williamson wrote: What's the last-touched date of your /etc/modprobe.conf ? Do you know when that is in relation to the lifetime of the install? Just poking around, I get the impression that it may have happened near the first round of updates after I

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/9/20 Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:49:30 +0100 Adam Williamson wrote: What's the last-touched date of your /etc/modprobe.conf ? Do you know when that is in relation to the lifetime of the install? Just poking around, I get the impression that it may have

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Tom Horsley
In the yum.log I see the time on modprobe.conf occurs in a gap in the yum updates: Aug 25 19:37:56 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-aiptek-1.3.1-1.fc14.x86_64 Aug 25 20:02:56 Updated: libgcc-4.5.1-1.fc14.x86_64 The fix for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589593 was pushed to F14

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 09:53 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: In the yum.log I see the time on modprobe.conf occurs in a gap in the yum updates: Aug 25 19:37:56 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-aiptek-1.3.1-1.fc14.x86_64 Aug 25 20:02:56 Updated: libgcc-4.5.1-1.fc14.x86_64 The fix for

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-20 Thread Andre Robatino
Ralph Loader suckfish at ihug.co.nz writes: Looks like it's a minor security hole too: $ ls -l /etc/modprobe.conf -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jun 27 17:50 /etc/modprobe.conf ^^ Are you seeing this in F14? June 27 is pretty old. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-19 Thread Tom Horsley
After all these years, something from the fedora repos (the only ones I have active in my F14 partition) is still creating an (empty) /etc/modprobe.conf file. Maybe abrtd should add a special inotify thread that watches /etc/ for a modprobe.conf file being created :-). -- test mailing list

Re: Grrr... modprobe.conf

2010-09-19 Thread Ralph Loader
After all these years, something from the fedora repos (the only ones I have active in my F14 partition) is still creating an (empty) /etc/modprobe.conf file. Looks like it's a minor security hole too: $ ls -l /etc/modprobe.conf -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jun 27 17:50 /etc/modprobe.conf