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Subject: Re: NetBSD Security Advisory 2000-001
References: <14505.23693.773699.404104@passion.geek.com.au>
From: Chris Jones <chris@cjones.org>
Date: 15 Feb 2000 14:38:49 -0700
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Daniel Carosone <security-officer@netbsd.org> writes:

> Solutions and Workarounds
> =========================

[...]

> If this action cannot be taken, an immediate workaround is to disable
> the use of the proc filesystem. It is not mounted by default in NetBSD,
> and nothing in the NetBSD base tree depends on it. You can disable
> it by removing any procfs lines from /etc/fstab.

What about user mounts of procfs filesystems?

Chris

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