Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 07:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Alan's point about perl is well taken, though. Perl is a pretty damn 
> generic interpreter, and unlike most interpreters exposes everything.
> And 
> I doubt it uses "mmap(.. PROT_EXEC)" to map in the file ;)

you can feed it via stdin, I doubt it mmaps stdin that way for sure ;)


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