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Exploit-Dev Archives: Re: Window manager - implementation bug/f

Re: Window manager - implementation bug/feature ???

Erik Parker (eparkerMINDSEC.COM)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:06:34 -0600

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Michael Jennings wrote:

> On Thursday, 07 October 1999, at 11:01:55 (-0600),
> Erik Parker wrote:
>
> > However, /dev/hdc is not his CDrom unless his primary hard drive is
> > SCSI, and his cdrom is primary IDE.. then I can understand
> > that.. but it doesn't sound like that is the case.. sounds like the
> > user when the login has access to everything on that drive.
>
> According to hd(4):
>
> Hd* are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives
> in raw mode. The master drive on the primary IDE con­
> troller (major device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is
> hdb. The master drive of the second controller (major
> device number 22) is hdc and the slave hdd.
>
> So if he has two IDE hard drives on his primary controller and an IDE
> CD-ROM on his second controller (as my home machine does), his first
> HD will be /dev/hda, his second will be /dev/hdb, and his CD-ROM will
> be /dev/hdc. I don't see a problem with having read-write access to a
> read-only device.... :-)
>
> Michael

Doh.. Very true.. I am unsure of why exactly I was thinking hdc was
primary Ide.. Not sure why I was thinking that..

But still, unless I missed it, he never said that WAS his cd-rom..
Even though most OEM machines come with CDROM on master secondary (hdc)..

That would be normal operations I suppose..

Erik Parker
eparkermindsec.com

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