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Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random

Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random

Posted Mar 31, 2022 15:48 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random by pj
Parent article: Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random

That sounds dangerous as long as the `nobody` user can perform `</dev/zero >/dev/random`.

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Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random

Posted Apr 11, 2022 14:53 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Surprised to find out you're right. I assumed those device nodes would be only writable by root for this exact reason.


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