On 01/02/2019 20.40, Felix Miata wrote: ...
I'm not expecting anything to change on account of what I say, mainly trying to get some sense of the real world potential risk without first having to become a competent programmer. This seems like just another case of expending resources to fix what ain't broke instead of what is known broke, or the government standard attacking symptoms instead of disease.
I explained in another post how the danger is real and can be exploited. It is not known for sure if there is a exploit in any of those filesystems (if that was known for sure it might be closed, but it is very possible, because it is known they have bugs that are not attended to). But if the vulnerability exists, then it is usable by anyone on millions of computers that do not have any reason at all to use any of those rare filesystems, by a plain user with access to the machine. That is the risk. Quite real. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)