Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Feb 2006 23:20:06 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: 8250 serial console fixes -- issue |
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On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 05:08:10PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> writes: > > > Stop throwing FUD into this issue. The original claim was that a > > non-root user could send arbitary strings via the console system. > > This was an independent claim from the other issues. > > That is clearly another thing and would probably need to be > demonstrated. Anyway, the AT* problem[1] doesn't require a user > action and the fix proposed (if correct) would fix the real AT* > problem instead.
The problem being discussed in this sub-thread was explicitly related to just one case - where a _non root_ user may inject AT command sequences. Your response in that thread was throwing up random other issues, and in that respect it's just adding confusion to the specific issue being discussed.
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