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From: Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making procfs mount as nosuid,noexec by default
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:41:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152985304.24093.16.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B91B98.2050803@gentoo.org>

On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 17:45 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The local root exploit-of-the-week would have been unable to run if our 
> users systems had /proc mounted with nosuid and/or noexec
> 
> It would be worthwhile considering making this a default. What are 
> people's thoughts?

I mailed Mike about this very thing a month ago. Pretty sure it should 
be showing up in an upcoming baselayout. But yeah it's a good idea for
the nosuid part anyway. Not 100% sure about the noexec part as that
might break upx which calls /proc/self/exe as part of it's decompresser
routines.

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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-15 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-15 16:45 [gentoo-dev] Making procfs mount as nosuid,noexec by default Daniel Drake
2006-07-15 17:41 ` Ned Ludd [this message]
2006-07-15 18:53   ` Ned Ludd
2006-07-15 19:20   ` Mike Frysinger
2006-07-16 14:45     ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-16  1:39   ` Drake Wyrm
2006-07-15 23:17 ` Doug Goldstein
2006-07-16  8:07 ` Josh Saddler
2006-07-16  8:48   ` Christian Heim

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