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Re: apt-get and /tmp



On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Joey Hess wrote:
> Set APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir in apt.conf
> 
> Note that noexec filesystems provide little or no protextion against an
> attacker who knows how to execute non-executable binaries with
> ld.so.

Thanks for the information.  I didn't know about the ld.so trick.  I'll
just remove the noexec option from the /tmp directory.
	-- Robert

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