Re: linux noexec (Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day)

[Martin Mačok <martin.macok () underground cz>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:46:40PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:02:19 +0100, Michal Zalewski said:
>
> > 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...
>
> In what way is it "badly broken"?

Flagging the file to be an executable or not does not guarantee that
no one will ever read and execute the instructions written in the file.

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