Grrr... modprobe.conf

Bryn M. Reeves bmr at redhat.com
Mon Sep 20 12:39:04 UTC 2010


On 09/20/2010 01:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:56:56 +0200
> Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> 
>> You can blacklist the firewall modules - it can be critical :)
> 
> Actually, I think you can run any arbitrary command to
> load a module, so it is probably a gigantic security
> hole.

Kinda what I was thinking. This should be fairly easy to track down with
the amount of tracing and debugging tools we have in the distro now. I'm
not convinced it's dracut's doing but if I have time to get a VM
installed later on I'll try to have a poke around.

Cheers,
Bryn.


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