Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries?

From: Ville Herva (vherva@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 03:30:19 EST

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:15:01AM -0600, you [Eric W. Biederman] claimed:
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> <snip size of glibc>

Where size is an issue, diet libc might be an alternative:

http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/

(287kB statically linked zsh is not too shabby, I reckon.)

That and things like busybox:

http://busybox.lineo.com/

I have no suggestion wrt the kernel, though.

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