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Re:Linux and BSD Web Servers at Risk of Sophisticated Mumble... by cruelfate on Thursday April 30, 2015 @10:01PM (#9468959)
Learned a couple of things from linked research paper like always mount /tmp and /var/tmp as noexec, and some `dig` fu.
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Re:Linux and BSD Web Servers at Risk of Sophisticated Mumble... by feld on Thursday April 30, 2015 @10:29PM (#9469053)
noexec can break a lot of things so please be mindful
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Re:Linux and BSD Web Servers at Risk of Sophisticated Mumble... by cruelfate on Thursday April 30, 2015 @11:00PM (#9469131)
Ya, was wondering about package install scripts.
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Re:Linux and BSD Web Servers at Risk of Sophisticated Mumble... by kjs3 on Friday May 01, 2015 @11:53AM (#9472263)
You can remount those dirs without noexec when you need to do a legitimate install.
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