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Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling



On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> [ as I understand it, a security 'breach' could only occur with this
> system if a user had execute permissions but *not* read permissions
> on a file that wasn't of a normal executable format; in other words:
> rwx--x--x /usr/bin/haha-you-cant-run-me.exe or if the user normally
> didn't have permissions to run the interpreter but had enough
> permissions to execute files of that type. Both of these seem to me to
> be unusual cases, but who knows? :) ]

Or if the interpreter was setuid or setgid.

-- 
Raul


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