Re: /lib/ld-2.2.4.so

From: FozZy (fozzy@dmpfrance.com)
Date: 04/24/02 

Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 23:12:05 +0200
From: FozZy <fozzy@dmpfrance.com>
To: Olaf Kirch <okir@caldera.de>

> You can't fix it. You can always do
>
> cp file-with-mode-444-perms ./foobar
> chmod +x foobar
> ./foobar

Well, not "always". I used to be on a system where home partitions, /tmp, and any place where you can write something, were mounted as noexec. There was also no compiler, etc.
But, with this trick a cracker could upload his favorite binary exploit and easily run it.

FozZy

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