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Comment Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score 2, Informative) 904

Err, you can still run interpreted programs on a filesystem mounted noexec:

~$ python myprogram.py

A sufficiently clever user could use an interpreter to write his own dynamic linker and thereby run binaries too.

No he cannot, as he cannot write that interpreter to a place where it can be executed.

Besides, such an interpreter already exists on your system and is called /lib/ld.so or one of its newer names. Note that trying to do this trick doesn't work, as your linker then needs to mmap this code with PROT_EXEC which is not allowed for files residing in a noexec mounted fs.

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