Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 1996 00:34:30 +0200 | From | JF Martinez <> | Subject | Another backdoor to secure mode |
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We all know back door number one: modules. There is another one the IOPL and IOPERM system calls. If I am not wrong nothing impedes a privileged program of writing directly to disk with these calls. Of course it will to know about disk handling and file system layout.
The problem is: X windows needs these calls, so if you forbid them in secure mode then bye bye X.
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