Re: [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanity checking

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 15:43:22 EST


On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:20:53PM +0100, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
> I think this points to an 'issue', if we're going to increase the checks
> in the ELF-loader (and thus increase the size of the minimal valid ELF
> file we can load, thus effectively 'bloating' (lol) some programs) we
> should probably allow some sort of direct binary executable files [i.e.
> header 'XBIN386\0' followed by Read/Execute binary code to execute by

Like binfmt_flat? :)

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