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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:44:08 +0300
From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@...lice.com>,
Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Physical access vulnerabilities and auto-mounting
23.02.2011 08:46, Nelson Elhage wrote:
> I don't have any definite opinions here about where to draw which
> lines, but I want to point out that in addition to physical attack
> vectors, virtualization tools are also potentially affected by these
> kinds of bugs. If you try to mount an untrusted VM's virtual disk
> image from somewhere, you're also vulnerable to that VM triggering
> bugs in the filesystem or other layers.
And that's why projects like http://www.libguestfs.org/ emerges.
FWIW ;)
/mjt
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