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Re: Mounting filesystems with "noexec"
From: Borja Marcos (borjamar
sarenet.es)
Date: Thu Sep 22 2005 - 06:41:18 CDT
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> As long as you can disable/limit the logging. One very nasty
> "attack" would be
> to loop trying to run a binary. Blow your logging partition.
> Somebody could
> then use that to do other things that would normally be logged,
> safe in the
> knowledge that their activities wouldn't be logged.
>
> I've seen systems brought to their knees by similar well
> intentioned logging
> activities. It's not pretty :)
That's out of the question, of course :)
A sysctl could control it. Anyway, the same can happen with
zillions of logged events.
Borja.
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