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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gentoo Linux

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