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| author | Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> | 2023-02-20 14:53:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> | 2023-02-20 14:53:31 +0100 |
| commit | 6ca381c1247c81f74e1ca4e7706f70bdda72e6f2 (patch) | |
| tree | d9b660b6bf46bc3c10eb23ff8b0d2ceb354f126b /man/dmidecode.8 | |
| parent | d8cfbc808f387e87091c25e7d5b8c2bb348bb206 (diff) | |
| download | dmidecode-git-6ca381c1247c81f74e1ca4e7706f70bdda72e6f2.tar.gz | |
dmidecode: Do not let --dump-bin overwrite an existing file
Make sure that the file passed to option --dump-bin does not already
exist. In practice, it is rather unlikely that an honest user would
want to overwrite an existing dump file, while this possibility
could be used by a rogue user to corrupt a system file.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/dmidecode.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/dmidecode.8 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/dmidecode.8 b/man/dmidecode.8 index 62aa304..83affc2 100644 --- a/man/dmidecode.8 +++ b/man/dmidecode.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH DMIDECODE 8 "January 2019" "dmidecode" +.TH DMIDECODE 8 "February 2023" "dmidecode" .\" .SH NAME dmidecode \- \s-1DMI\s0 table decoder @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ hexadecimal and \s-1ASCII\s0. This option is mainly useful for debugging. Do not decode the entries, instead dump the DMI data to a file in binary form. The generated file is suitable to pass to \fB--from-dump\fP later. +\fIFILE\fP must not exist. .TP .BR " " " " "--from-dump \fIFILE\fP" Read the DMI data from a binary file previously generated using |