Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262013AbVANPxE (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:53:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262014AbVANPxE (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:53:04 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:10513 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262013AbVANPxB (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:53:01 -0500 Subject: Re: thoughts on kernel security issues From: Arjan van de Ven To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Horst von Brand , Alan Cox , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, Greg KH , chrisw@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <200501141239.j0ECdaRj005677@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:52:23 +0100 Message-Id: <1105717943.6042.31.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 4.1 (++++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 2.63 on canuck.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (4.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.3 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains a numeric HELO 1.1 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] 2.5 RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK RBL: Sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS RBL: SORBS: sender is listed in SORBS [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 590 Lines: 15 On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 07:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Alan's point about perl is well taken, though. Perl is a pretty damn > generic interpreter, and unlike most interpreters exposes everything. > And > I doubt it uses "mmap(.. PROT_EXEC)" to map in the file ;) you can feed it via stdin, I doubt it mmaps stdin that way for sure ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/