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The /proc vulnerability

Posted Jul 22, 2006 16:21 UTC (Sat) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: The /proc vulnerability by nix
Parent article: The /proc vulnerability

If an attacker could write to a filesystem with exec permissions, then they wouldn't have to bother with trying to run an existing executable.

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