> Hello everybody,
>
> This bug should normally not be dangerous, but you never know.
>
> Consider a file which is execute only.
>
> ---x--x--x 1 andi users 8576 Sep 14 21:45 foobar
>
> You can not debug it, but 'strace' works, which should not, IMHO.
I noted this "security" problem a while back. I believe I was told the
behaviour you see is pretty much standard UNIX behaviour.
Fixing the strace is easy. However, that's only half the problem; look at
how the aout and ELF loaders kernel code mmap the executable.
Chris
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