full-disclosure - Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

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Message-ID: <20040118234136.GB10387@josefina.rdm.cz>
From: martin.macok at underground.cz (Martin Mačok)
Subject: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 10:14:48AM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:

> Mounting /tmp noexec also protects against future threats, not just
> ones that happen to be in the AV database.
> 
> (I know that someone recently released code to do a "user-space"
> exec, so mounting /tmp noexec is not 100% foolproof, but it's pretty
> good protection.)

Easy one. Execute "/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /tmp/code".

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