Re: Bug with dropping privileges when calling helpers: Is it critical? | |
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Karel Zak wrote: > That's CVE-2007-5191. It wasn't evaluated as a critical security bug. > I think it already has been fixed in all major distributions. Not in Slackware. > There is 2.13.0.1 release, see announce: > http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=119304720010975&w=2 Nice to know. Forwared this to security_at_slackware_dot_com. > It's not so simple, you need a relevant entry in /etc/fstab, because > mount(8) always checks your privileges before an > exec(/sbin/mount.<type>). I only have /sbin/mount.nfs. Does this mean, that one of my fstab-entries, which mounts an nfs share, has to be defined with the option "users" or "user"? As I don't have this, I'm not affected by this one? Thanks in advance CU Manuel -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger?did=10 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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