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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