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From: pageexec@××××××××.hu
To: Eric Pretorious <ericp@××.net>, Joshua Brindle <method@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Exploitable Weakness: Shared Memory
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:03:23
Message-Id: 417056E0.26972.2F84778C@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Exploitable Weakness: Shared Memory by Joshua Brindle
1 > trusted path is a broken concept.
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3 what's broken in it?
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5 > I'm not sure if it's been mentioned but adding noexec wouldn't prevent this
6 > since you can always run elf binaries through ld.so without directly executing
7 > them and noexec doesn't prevent this.
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9 i'm not sure if it's been mentioned but 2.6 since late last year and 2.2/2.4
10 since earlier this year have all fixed this for the generic case and PaX fixes
11 it for good. i bet you haven't tried this yourself in a while ;-).
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