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Bug#681418: debugfs is a big security hole



On 13.07.2012 05:37, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.2.21-3
> Severity: important
> Tags: security
> 
> As discussed here
> <http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2012-discuss/2012-July/000891.html>.
> 
> I certainly consider mounting of debugfs to be significant security
> liability.  I'm not at all happy that people use it as the basis for
> end-user applications that quietly mount debugfs if they find it isn't
> yet mounted.  Even if their corner of debugfs is robust, all the other
> stuff exposed by random drivers may not be.
> 
> Debian has at least one such application package (blktrace) which
> mounts debugfs from its init script.

systemd might be affected too, so I'm bringing Tollef into the loop here.

When having booted with systemd I get:

debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)


Tollef, do you know why systemd mounts debugfs by default?

Is there something that should be done in the systemd package?


Michael


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