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Not sure what system you've used, but I've never seen automounting fail to work on ext4 volumes. That being said, basically every file system ever is vulnerabl
by chungy 3y ago
Not sure what system you've used, but I've never seen automounting fail to work on ext4 volumes.
That being said, basically every file system ever is vulnerable to the malicious image. Kernel drivers assume that the metadata is sane enough and mistakes are from simple bugs, not deliberate attacks.
- NavinF 3y agoI never said it would fail to work, I said it's a massive vulnerability. And no, implementations of other filesystems like FAT32 and ISO 9660 consider it a security bug when a malicious image gains arbitrarily code execution. What you described is exclusively a Linux desktop problem