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What chroot() is really for

What chroot() is really for

Posted Oct 11, 2007 8:48 UTC (Thu) by tbleher (guest, #48307)
In reply to: What chroot() is really for by jond
Parent article: What chroot() is really for

> Non-executable /tmp can be trivially circumvented by calling the loader
> with your binary as an argument.

That was true some years ago. Nowadays ld-linux.so fails if it is called
on a binary on a non-executable mount.


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