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| author | cperciva <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-05-27 03:15:04 +0000 |
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| committer | cperciva <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-05-27 03:15:04 +0000 |
| commit | c8612ee587015f9d8700cd66f976c478b90c96eb (patch) | |
| tree | bb411589baeeda79e1125d6ff01c0e7a1f95d350 /lib/libc | |
| parent | 24a8b9692fb6bf640d0b0d36774ebc871ad94410 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-c8612ee587015f9d8700cd66f976c478b90c96eb.zip FreeBSD-src-c8612ee587015f9d8700cd66f976c478b90c96eb.tar.gz | |
Change the current working directory to be inside the jail created by
the jail(8) command. [10:04]
Fix a one-NUL-byte buffer overflow in libopie. [10:05]
Correctly sanity-check a buffer length in nfs mount. [10:06]
Approved by: so (cperciva)
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Security: FreeBSD-SA-10:04.jail
Security: FreeBSD-SA-10:05.opie
Security: FreeBSD-SA-10:06.nfsclient
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/mount.2 | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/mount.2 b/lib/libc/sys/mount.2 index b65c1b6..57ad428 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/mount.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/mount.2 @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ This restriction can be removed by setting the .Va vfs.usermount .Xr sysctl 8 variable -to a non-zero value. +to a non-zero value; see the BUGS section for more information. .Pp The following .Fa flags @@ -374,3 +374,10 @@ system call first appeared in .Fx 5.0 . .Sh BUGS Some of the error codes need translation to more obvious messages. +.Pp +Allowing untrusted users to mount arbitrary media, e.g. by enabling +.Va vfs.usermount , +should not be considered safe. +Most file systems in +.Fx +were not built to safeguard against malicious devices. |
