Bug#378182: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#378182: mount -o nosuid, nodev /dev/shm

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006, dean gaudet wrote:
> i think because shm_open itself makes no mention of being able to support 
> executable shared memory i'd say we should put noexec on /dev/shm.

Agreed.  IMO, anything that is *missusing* /dev/shm as a regular filesystem
and breaks because it tried to execute stuff from there will deserve it.

Disclaimer: My instance in the "early rw filesystem" issue and the abuse of
/dev/shm is well known: /dev/shm is not to be used like that.

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