From: Jonas Diemer <diemer@gmx.de>
To: Vernon Mauery <vmauery@gmail.com>
Cc: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: security issue: hard disk lock
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:10:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504051910.30562.diemer@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4252B1A9.3040005@gmail.com>
Am Dienstag 05. April 2005 17:41 schrieb Vernon Mauery:
> This makes sense because a particularly malicious
> place to put something like this is a worm that attaches to your boot
> loader. Then, even doing it in the kernel at boot time is too late.
I understand... Didn't know that worms could attach to the bootloader :-)
Well, then even fixing this in the bootloader would be too late, if the worm
could simply replace the bootloader. I guess it's not a kernel-issue then and
should really be addressed in the boot-up sequence (as long as BIOS vendors
fail to fix it), be it with or without initrd.
regards,
Jonas
PS: Still not in list, so please CC me on eventual replies.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-05 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-04 17:42 Jonas Diemer
2005-04-04 18:32 ` Horst von Brand
2005-04-04 23:00 ` Chris Friesen
2005-04-05 15:41 ` Vernon Mauery
2005-04-05 17:10 ` Jonas Diemer [this message]
2005-04-04 19:26 ` Florian Weimer
2005-04-11 15:36 ` Alan Cox
2005-04-11 16:01 ` Jonas Diemer
2005-04-14 3:20 ` Mark Lord
2005-04-15 15:09 ` Alan Cox
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