Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 4 Oct 2001 02:50:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | George Greer <> | Subject | Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? |
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>Which is why the kernel only allows it when the binary loader itself >sets the flag, because security-conscious application writers are >already aware of the "oh, a running binary may not be writable" issues.
One of the methods I tried to use to stop a fork()-bomb was to zero the executable in question to force it to crash. No such luck, reboot it was. Not that I can think of any other useful application of said behavior.
-- George Greer, greerga@m-l.org http://www.m-l.org/~greerga/
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