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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:41:35 -0700
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Physical access vulnerabilities and auto-mounting
* [2011-02-23 08:33:48 +0100] Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
>Unfortunally I think nobody would care. As nobody cared
>that you actually do not need physical access. Via udisks DBUS
>service you can load any LKM via
>
>dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.UDisks \
> /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0 \
> org.freedesktop.UDisks.Device.FilesystemMount \
> string:'LKM' array:string:''
>
>I reported that several months ago to upstream but it was frozen to more
>or less a non-issue. Indeed nobody agreed that this is an issue to fix.
Please use CVE-2010-4661 for this udisks flaw.
Some additional references:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32232
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664082
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Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team
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