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From: Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions...
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:44:36
Message-Id: 517CE15F.2020104@binarywings.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions... by Tanstaafl
1 Am 24.04.2013 18:12, schrieb Tanstaafl:
2 > On 2013-04-24 11:31 AM, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote:
3 >> Am 24.04.2013 17:12, schrieb Tanstaafl:
4 >>> Ok, but - does it make sense to add the noexec option to /var/tmp? Is it
5 >>> possible that there are other apps that need exec capability in there?
6 >
7 >> It makes sense. Any world-writable directory should be noexec to make
8 >> script injection harder. Other directories, too, like /var/www (if you
9 >> can, i.e. no cgi). I cannot tell you if any application might need it.
10 >> Try it. It is easy enough to revert, maybe even with a `mount -o
11 >> remount`, I'm not sure.
12 >>
13 >> Also, look at
14 >> http://serverfault.com/questions/72356/how-useful-is-mounting-tmp-noexec
15 >
16 > Hmmm, this only talks about /tmp... I'm talking about /var/tmp...
17 >
18 > So, I guess you're right, I'll just need to try it and see...
19 >
20
21 Just stumbled across this:
22 http://blog.siphos.be/2013/04/securely-handling-libffi/
23
24 Might be relevant, might be not.
25
26 Regards,
27 Florian Philipp

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