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Re:CVE-2019-1347: When a mouse over a file is enough to cras... by zaarn on Sunday November 17, 2019 @05:55AM (#21557382)
Linux uses libelf to parse the executable, it isn't in the kernel. It's a sort of weird process but binfmt will load libelf, which is then responsible for loading the ELF file.
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Re:CVE-2019-1347: When a mouse over a file is enough to cras... by Vogtinator on Sunday November 17, 2019 @06:17AM (#21557454)
Nope: The Linux kernel has to parse and support all of the ELF stuff the INTERP of the executable needs.

fs/binfmt_elf.c is over 2k lines.

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