Re: disk-destroyer.c

Frank v Waveren (fvw@var.cx)
Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:07:26 +0200

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:31:38PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> Currently all Linux kernels can be ATTACKED in this method.
[snip]
> if ((fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)) == -1) {

This doesn't sound that incredibly serious to me, after all you still seem to
need write access to one of the hd's partitions right? Or am I missing
something here? (Of course, it's still bug and should be squashed..)

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                        Frank v Waveren
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