Re: Executable /lib/ld-linux.so breaks noexec
> That behavior always struck me as fairly evil -- it's never fun when one
> single bit flip can take down a system, and I'd like to see the number
> of bits that can do so be as small as possible. Now that you point out
> the actual code I wish we could do away with that check. Does it really
> buy anything for elf executables?
It could be as simple as some specification requiring that the INTERP be
executable. Maybe there's some magic in the ELF spec that requires that
behavior.
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