[plug] USB & kernel questions

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Wed Dec 17 21:53:07 WST 2003


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In message <20031217101518.GH3173 at erdos.home>
on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:15:18PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> mount is setuid root

Cripes! And dynamically linked, too (under Debian woody, at least)! (I
see /usr/mount, but no /sbin/mount variant.) I'm no security expert,
but this looks highly improper to me at first glance.





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