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Re:CVE-2019-1347: When a mouse over a file is enough to cras... by saagarjha on Sunday November 17, 2019 @06:28AM (#21557482)
> IIRC, the binfmt elf code in the Linux kernel basically only does enough elf parsing to map everything into memory and kick off the linker.

Even for statically linked executables?

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Re:CVE-2019-1347: When a mouse over a file is enough to cras... by NieDzejkob on Sunday November 17, 2019 @08:04AM (#21557747)
For a statically linked executable, the minimal parsing is enough to kick off the executable directly. After all, the linker is "just" a statically linked executable...
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