On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Karen Shaeffer wrote:
>
> > Thank you for the nice summary. And, certainly the patch should be applied.
> >
> > But you have described defective hardware. And despite the patch, it is still
> > possible for a malicious root to exploit this defective hardware. So, this
> > is ultimately a hardware manufacturer issue. A list of boards with the defective
> > disk controller chip should be released to the public, so consumers can be
> > aware of the problem and *NOT* purchase these controllers in the future.
>
> Assume no hardware has defects, it is an exploit against the ATA SPECS.
Then perhaps the ATA SPECS should be questioned if the ATA SPECS allow
for this. A hardware jumper should be required. Either that or a method by
which the drive can be recovered (such as good quality motherboards have for
their bioses) should be defined.
Stephen
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