Re: [PATCH v5] exec: load_script: Do not exec truncated interpreter path

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 4:52 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 4:36 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This attempts the protection again, but allows arguments to
> > remain truncated. In an effort to improve readability, helper functions
> > and comments have been added.
>
> Applied directly, in the (maybe naive) belief that this can't possibly
> break anything, and let's just get it fixed for 5.0 rather than wait
> another release.
>
> Famous last words.

Eek. :)

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Kees Cook