On Friday 08 February 2008, James Knott wrote:
Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
Freitag, 8. Februar 2008 Randall R Schulz:
That is manifestly false. It takes an explicit vulnerability for this to happen. The classic one is unchecked overflow of a buffer
Any given nasty application would need 1 system call to remove your homedir. Call that "unfair" or "vulnerability", whatever.
How you would run into such a nasty app is another story. But isn't saying that you couldn't a bit over-optimistic?
Wolfgang
Given that /home is owned by root and mere mortals cannot make any changes there, how would that happen, from any app a user could run? If I run some malicious piece of software, the contents of my home directory may be at risk, along with other files I have write permissions for, but not much else.
Not much else? I think that's quite a bit already. If a malicious user or program got access to my home dir, I would think that as a pretty damn serious issue. That just *might* ruin my day pretty bad, depending on what the said user or program were up to. Tero Pesonen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org