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Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX
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Martin Wilck |
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Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX |
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Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:58:03 +0100 |
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Vladimir,
thanks for your thoughtful answer. I understand your concerns better now.
On 02/19/2013 10:37 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Suppose blocklist changes because of e.g. user mistake. Yet at the old
> location there is still the old core.img. For the time being. So this
> problem may go unnoticed for years yet if someone has the ability to
> create new files on the disk in question, he creates ton of files with
> copies of malicious sector, one of them will overwrite core and be
> executed on next reboot.
Am I understanding correctly that the user mistake you describe must be
some manipulation of "core.img" itself (e.g. running grub2-mkimage but
now grub2-setup, which would classify as "mistake" in a blocklist setup)?
Martin
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- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, (continued)
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Chris Murphy, 2013/02/18
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Andrey Borzenkov, 2013/02/19
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Chris Murphy, 2013/02/19
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Michael Chang, 2013/02/19
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2013/02/19
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Chris Murphy, 2013/02/19
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Martin Wilck, 2013/02/19
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Chris Murphy, 2013/02/19
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Martin Wilck, 2013/02/19
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2013/02/19
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX,
Martin Wilck <=
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2013/02/19
- Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Martin Wilck, 2013/02/19
Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX, Andrey Borzenkov, 2013/02/19