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Re: Email based attack on University



I'm still lurking here, but not sure what this suggestion means.

Please expand.


On 5/10/19 1:22 am, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 07:03:59PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
I wonder if having /home on a 'noexec' partition would stop this attack, please?

I don't know specifically about this attack, but noexec is trivial to
circumvent. Here's three ways:

    bash -c "~/whatever"
    cp ~/whatever /tmp && /tmp/whatever
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ~/whatever



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