Re: Mathematica on Linux /tmp/MathLink vulnerability

[Marsh Ray <marsh () extendedsubset com>]

On 5/14/2010 6:19 AM, paul.szabo () sydney edu au wrote:
> Dear Marsh,
>
> Personal opinions (hoping not to start a flame war) on your questions:

Thanks.

> > A. Does anyone think there would be much gained by me requesting (or
> > insisting on) a CVE number?
>
> I do not see the need for CVEs for such "trivial" (easily verifiable)
> problems.

It's becoming apparent that's trivial to some is deep hacking to others.

> I find them useful when problems or fixes are reported in
> "obscure" software (e.g. in binary-only proprietary distributions), so
> as to identify same-known-problem reports.

Maybe for multiple-affected vendor situations.

> > B. Does anybody actually care about local escalations any more, or is
> > everyone just expected to have their very own personal virtual private
> > cloud for a security boundary?
>
> We each must protect our own cocoons.

It's easier if we can agree on a set of expectations and stick by them,
particularly for primitives like file permissions and process isolation.
If there's little agreement for a particular thing, I might want to
build that cocoon a little differently. Which is why I asked the question.

> Saving the world is impossible.

That's not been proven.

- Marsh

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