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DateWed, 19 Jan 2005 13:56:18 +0100
FromPavel Machek <>
SubjectRe: thoughts on kernel security issues
Hi!

> > For us thankfully, exec-shield has trapped quite a few remotely
> > exploitable holes, preventing the above.
> 
> One thing worth considering, but may be abit _too_ draconian, is a
> capability that says "can execute ELF binaries that you can write to".
> 
> Without that capability set, you can only execute binaries that you cannot
> write to, and that you cannot _get_ write permission to (ie you can't be
> the owner of them either - possibly only binaries where the owner is
> root).

Well, if there's gdb installed on such machine, you can probably circumvent this.

Hmm, you can probably do /lib/ld-linux.so.2 your binary, no?
				Pavel
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