Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel

yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 04:03:30 -0600


On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 12:18:55AM -0400, phazer wrote:
> >So someone breaks in and is able to either trash module objects or
> > run insmod, and if there are no module objects, that person can
> > now do less damage?
>
> see phrack issue 51 article 9
> http://www.phrack.com/search.phtml?view&article=p51-9

Does not answer the question. If I can get enough privilege on your system
to "insmod", then you are compromised anyways. I can do the same trick by
"open /dev/mem" with only slightly more work. Or consider "dlopen".

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