Re: Bug#681418: debugfs is a big security hole

2012-07-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 04:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > I would like to address this by backporting this feature: > > commit d6e486868cde585842d55ba3b6ec57af090fc343 > Author: Ludwig Nussel > Date: Wed Jan 25 11:52:28 2012 +0100 > > debugfs: add mode, uid and gid options > > and t

Bug#681418: debugfs is a big security hole

2012-07-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.21-3 Severity: important Tags: security As discussed here . I certainly consider mounting of debugfs to be significant security liability. I'm not at all happy that people use