Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:23:59 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>, scex <scex@dqc.org>, "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell history Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980829191526.6282G-100000@aniwa.sky> In-Reply-To: <19980829012245.54585@futuresouth.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 10:42:52PM -0700, Jan B. Koum woke me up to tell me: > > Hmm.. you are right, but what will stop an attacker who has > > freebsd box or has access to one to download the binary? > > mount -u -o noexec /home? > (and /tmp, of course) Does this stop an attacker doing something like loading a file as a library from perl, using code on stdin? ANdrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.980829191526.6282G-100000>