A disk partitioning and formatting tool, such as GParted, requires root privilege to be able to create new partition tables, format disks and partitions, update the Linux kernel with the changes, etc. By its very nature GParted can completely overwrite everything on a disk device.
With this in mind, why is the ability to overwrite a file considered a security concern when GParted could be used to change the entire contents of the disk device? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1986913 Title: privilege escallation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1986913/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
