[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#553918: Bug#553918: virtualbox-ose-source: Please, make dkms a recommendation.

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Thu Nov 12 10:24:44 UTC 2009


On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:06:33PM +0100, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> 2) It therefor runs as root. And it even does if /lib/modules/<installed 
> kernel>/source points to a non privileged build directory which is a security 
> problem.

I don't really see where the security problem is here. Would you mind explaining it?

Michael
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