On 11/05/10 13:59, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 11.05.2010 14:56, schrieb Handsome Cheung:
yes, I run hal, but don't use display manager. Your answer inspired
me, and I will check something about hal immediately. Thanks!
Even if the user is allowed to use hal to initiate a shutdown, it would
still be necessary to exploit a security weakness in firefox that would
allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. And a matching exploit
would have to be on any website that triggers the shutdown ... this all
sounds very unlikely.
I'm willing to bet that this is no exploit ad in-fact a bug at some
point in the stack.
A couple years ago I found I could almost crash xorg at will with my
questionable C code(I was just learning C) and a couple time the xorg
crash resulted in a reboot/shutdown.
Does it persist with another xorg driver?
