Stas Sergeev wrote:
>Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>> The consensus has been to add the same checks to mprotect. They were
>> not left out intentionally.
>
>But how about the anonymous mmap with PROT_EXEC set?
I'm curious about this, too. ld-linux.so is a purely unprivileged
program. It isn't setuid root. Can you write a variant of ld-linux.so
that reads an executable into memory off of a partition mounted noexec and
then begins executing that code? (perhaps by using anonymous mmap with
PROT_EXEC or some other mechanism) It sure seems like the answer would
be yes. If so, I'm having a hard time understanding what guarantees
noexec gives you. Isn't the noexec flag just a speedbump that raises
the bar a little but doesn't really prevent anything?
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