Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

[Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf () ghettot org>]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> > Easy one. Execute "/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /tmp/code".
> This long-standing issue is fixed in the Linux 2.6.0 kernel.

How is it an issue? I think it is a feature - it is noexec that is pretty
badly broken by design, and nearly impossible to render secure... and what
does Linux kernel have to do with addressing it?

Disclaimer: I don't have 2.6 sources at hand, maybe this is the case
(although I somehow doubt there is a reasonable way to fix it kernel -
how, by refusing PROT_EXEC mappings from files on noexec partitions? hope
not).

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