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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 ? |
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the current Gentoo default fstab mounts it 'defaults' options |
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-mike |
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