Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2005-01-14 at 15:45, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > 
> > But you can trivially run an executable via e.g.:
> > 
> >     /lib/ld-2.3.4.so some-nice-proggie
> 
> I thought we fixed this, and modern ld-so's will fail on this if 
> "some-nice-proggie" cannot be mapped executably. Which is exactly what 
> we'd do.

And I can still write it in perl forget MAP_EXEC and work on almost ever
processor in use today because NX is very recent. Rewriting qemu in perl
might be a bit extreme but its possible 8)

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