Wow! Lots of kernel flaws...

[Sam Varshavchik]

Arjan van de Ven writes:

> 
>> True. But one of them, the ext3, looked more serious. OK, I'll hold off on 
>> the bugzilla.
> 
> I know the kernel developers are working on some of these (and they're
> widely published) but the priority is ... well relatively minor.
> Think of it this way: to mount a filesystem you need to be root, or your
> desktop environment must trust you enough that you have local access to
> the machine; if your aim is to crash the machine you have access to...
> you can also unplug the power cord :)
> 
> (but this is a very good argument to make sure our desktop environments
> don't mount "external" filesystems such as cds and usb sticks
> automatically; especially if the filesystem isn't one native for the
> device; eg iso9660 for the cd and vfat for the usb stick)

Wonderful.  Now that we've made leaps and bounds in terms of desktop 
usability on a typical personal desktop, we have to rewind the clock and go 
back to the clumsy ways of years gone by.


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