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Re: [PATCH 1/2] report bad ELF interpreter if it causes exec to fail

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From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] report bad ELF interpreter if it causes exec to fail
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:59:04 +0200
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On Friday 17 April 2015 17:21:40 Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> This behaviour got mentioned on one of the blogs that I tend to read
> here:
> 
> http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/BashSuperintelligentExec
> 
> I would agree with the conclusion of that blog writer that this is going
> a little bit overboard.
> 
> Also, I'm fairly sure that this would require linking with libelf on
> some systems which is an added dependency.
> 
> Oliver

Why would the patch require linking with libelf?

The patch does not rely on any symbols provided by the libelf library.  It 
just optionally uses <elf.h> if the header file is available during build.

Kamil

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