Drive mapping of Z:

Michael Stefaniuc mstefani at redhat.com
Mon Jul 24 08:12:41 CDT 2006


Molle Bestefich wrote:
> Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> 
>> Disabling the Z:\ drive won't help security
> 
> 
> in THEORY...
> 
>> because windows applications can still do Linux syscalls
>> (int 0x80) which they can use do do anything native
>> apps do, like accessing files outside wine drive mappings.
> 
> 
> But in PRACTICE, it would help a lot to hinder total system
> destruction once viruses start running correctly on Wine.
> 
> (Especially for users like me, who always runs Wine as the root user ;-).)
That's plain wrong. I guess Wine needs a patch to make it stop working
as uid 0 ...


bye
	michael
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