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Linux ISO9660 handling flaws

Posted Mar 20, 2005 3:03 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
Parent article: Linux ISO9660 handling flaws

surviving in the face of a deliberatly corrupted filesystem sounds like an easy thing to miss. I would be very surprised if we didn't see a bunch of vunerabilities along these lines in many differeny OS's in the next few months as everyone double-checks things

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Posted Mar 21, 2005 15:00 UTC (Mon) by eludias (subscriber, #4058) [Link]

...and too little attention will be payed to this in the future. The only way I see is to implement removable media in user-space (mtools for example) or more transparant with something like FUSE. The only thing we need now is a FUSE-to-linux-filesystems-connector and we're set.