On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 15:33 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > Why on earth would that be critical? The firewall is just a band-aid. If > it does anything useful, your system was broken (or infected) already. > > Seriously, if there is *any* case where the lack of firewall would be > 'critical', please file a bug for that. > > There are *much* more interesting things that someone could do with > arbitrary write access to /etc/modprobe.conf In that case, please stop bikeshedding. Your post doesn't add anything significant to the discussion, since we all agree that a world-writeable modprobe.conf is an obvious security problem. Arguing about the implementation details of an attack against modprobe.conf isn't really a lot of use. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
