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On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 17:45 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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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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> 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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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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Gentoo Linux |
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