Bug 182352

Summary:	HAL allows non-privileged console user to circumvent system policy
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Zeuthen <davidz>
Component:	hal	Assignee:	John (J5) Palmieri <johnp>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	jkeck, mclasen
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	0.5.7-1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2006-02-25 01:56:15 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	150222

Description David Zeuthen 2006-02-21 23:13:05 UTC

Description of problem:

HAL allows non-privileged console user to circumvent system policy by allowing
mounting of devices that the administrator put in /etc/fstab

Expected results:

HAL should refuse Mount() methods on devices specifically listed in /etc/fstab.

Additional info:

I've got a fix for this in HAL CVS. As I'm the upstream developer I also urge
upgrading to a new release for FC5Final rather soon as other important (though
not security critical) bugs have been fixed. I will do a hal 0.5.7 release later
this week.

I am marking this as a FC5 blocker bug.