[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#386368: /dev/shm or /run/shm is still not mounted with noexec

[Roger Leigh]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 05:55:59PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 08:48:07AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > On 7 Jun 2010 the last update said shm would be noexec again.
> > 
> > Is it still going to happen?
> 
> Can't see why not.  We've removed all the abusers of the /dev/shm
> namespace, so should be safe to do so.  Are there any known uses
> of /dev/shm which would break such as shared mmap PROT_EXEC
> mappings?

Enabled in git; should be in -26.

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