linux-kernel - Re: dell-smm-hwmon: security problems

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Message-Id: <201606082010.43649@pali>
Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2016 20:10:43 +0200
From:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>, Mario_Limonciello@...l.com,
	Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@...il.com>,
	Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl>,
	linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dell-smm-hwmon: security problems

On Wednesday 08 June 2016 19:37:43 Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 03:55:48PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > And do you have idea what to do with problem 1)?
> 
> If you really want to do something about it, you could whiteout the
> serial number if CAP_SYS_ADMIN is not set.

Ok, that sounds reasonable. 

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com

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