Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Aug 1998 09:24:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [SECURITY] suid procs exec'd with bad 0,1,2 fds |
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On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, David S. Miller wrote: > > > We had an issue like this last year, where someone tried to kill > > security exploits by putting a monkey wrench into the kernel > > (I'm refereing to the non-executable stack patches). That change > > didn't go in, and we're still alive today. > > Actually a _lot_ of people run the non-excutable stack and related > patches. They don't break anything, they stop a lot of the "I read bugtraq > before my sysadmin" type cracks and the like > > There _is_ a definite case for > > CONFIG_SECURITY > CONFIG_SECURITY_NONEXECSTACK > CONFIG_SECURITY_TRUSTEDPATH > > etc.. either in the main tree - or as now as a collection .
Please please please please!!
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