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On Saturday 15 July 2006 13:41, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 17:45 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> > The local root exploit-of-the-week would have been unable to run if our |
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> > users systems had /proc mounted with nosuid and/or noexec |
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> > |
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> > It would be worthwhile considering making this a default. What are |
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> > people's thoughts? |
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> I mailed Mike about this very thing a month ago. Pretty sure it should |
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> be showing up in an upcoming baselayout. But yeah it's a good idea for |
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> the nosuid part anyway. Not 100% sure about the noexec part as that |
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> might break upx which calls /proc/self/exe as part of it's decompresser |
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> routines. |
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this will be in baselayout-1.12.2+ |
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-mike |
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