| Summary: | installer fails to detect corrupt /etc/fedora-release | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Steve Tyler <stephent98> | ||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | 15 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||
| Last Closed: | 2011-04-18 23:54:21 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Description
Steve Tyler
2011-04-17 04:33:12 UTC
Created attachment 492661 [details]
this is what happens when you do not do your md5sums ... :-)
We have to trust something. Trusting the file on disk to be correct doesn't seem unreasonable. If you are hitting this problem via some normal activity, please include the details. (In reply to comment #2) > We have to trust something. Trusting the file on disk to be correct doesn't > seem unreasonable. If you are hitting this problem via some normal activity, > please include the details. Applications that "trust" their input expose users to hackers. Buffer Overflow Attacks and Their Countermeasures http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6701 SQL Injection http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms161953.aspx (In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > We have to trust something. Trusting the file on disk to be correct doesn't > > seem unreasonable. If you are hitting this problem via some normal activity, > > please include the details. > > Applications that "trust" their input expose users to hackers. > > Buffer Overflow Attacks and Their Countermeasures > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6701 > > SQL Injection > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms161953.aspx Indeed, the installer should be checking digital signatures before trusting anything on a device of unknown provenance. RPM packages have digital signatures ... (In reply to comment #2) > We have to trust something. Trusting the file on disk to be correct doesn't > seem unreasonable. If you are hitting this problem via some normal activity, > please include the details. "normal activity": Sysadmins sometimes make mistakes, e.g. by copying a file to the wrong place ... And sysadmins might neglect to run "rpm -Va '*'" periodically. |