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To: Gary Ng who wrote (40073)	11/11/1997 11:10:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Gary, Why can't the system admin simply deny execute privileges to any directory the user has write privileges to? This would stop a user from executing any user uploaded code. EP

To: Gary Ng who wrote (40073)	11/12/1997 12:25:00 PM
From: Fridrik Skulason	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

>I never said Linus/FreeBSD is bullet proof but this bug >turn them into a UNIX that cannot have any terminal/telnet >access at all. You just don't know when someone would >do the above. Anybody wanting to crash such a system can do so already - without using this bug ... that's the point - this bug does not really change anything, as there are already numerous ways a malicious user can crash such a system - the easiest way for a non-privileged program would probably be a fork/malloc bomb, but many other ways are possible.