linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] skge 0000:02:05: read data parity error

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Message-ID: <20080114213453.GJ9847@does.not.exist>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:34:53 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) 
	<oliver.pntr@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: [BUG] skge 0000:02:05: read data parity error

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:31:03PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote:
> I think, it is a potential security breakpoint, when applications with
> root permission its read, then a machine is freezed, or only i thin
> it's?

When you are root there are infinite ways to kill your machine, so 
there's nothing security related about this issue.

> Thanks,
> Oliver

cu
Adrian

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