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On Friday 15 October 2004 05:34 am, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>On Friday 15 October 2004 05:37 am, pageexec@××××××××.hu wrote: |
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>> as was said already, it's not an exploit per se, it's a hacking technique |
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>> to stay on an already compromised box. /dev/shm is a tmpfs filesystem, you |
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>> can check your 'mount' output or /etc/fstab. most likely it isn't mounted |
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>> with the noexec (let alone nodev, nosuid, etc) options so it serves as an |
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>> ideal hiding place (as in, many people don't think of it as a general |
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>> purpose storage place). |
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>on that note, is there any reason to not mount /dev/shm by default with all |
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>these options you listed ? the current Gentoo default fstab mounts it |
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>'defaults' options. |
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touche! |
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Eric P. |
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