On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:00 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Isn't it auto*run* which opens a vulnerability, and thus should be > disabled by default? Autorun can leads to somehow direct exploitation. > > Disabling automount & autobrowse seem to be security overkill. Autobrowse means a file manager is opened, which, by default, tries to make thumbnails of files, which, in turn, can lead to code execution by exploiting bugs in pdf parsers. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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