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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/23/2015 11:23 AM, Daniel P.
Berrange wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">The alternative Nova implementation is <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>not<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> using fuse, it is using real
mounts on the host FS. This is not a potential issue, it is an <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>actual<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
issue. There have been bugs in Linux filesystem drivers, including ext4,
that would have allowed a malicous kernel image to crash and/or exploit
the host kernel if mounted.
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#security-of-mounting-filesystems">http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#security-of-mounting-filesystems</a>
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Ok noted -> so why is losetup or qemu-nbd still proposed by nova
and still the default method ?<br>
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