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Bug#56821: Important security hole: mbr allows anyone to boot from a floppy.



> This attitude towards a security hole that compromises root
> privileges in all Debian systems as installed by default
> constitutes an important change compared to Debian's past
> policy regarding security problems.

This is not release critical because you can just rerun mbr with --enable -F
after you reboot. We've changed it so it works the other way around -- the
floppy is disabled by default.

randolph
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