- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:08:13 -0400
On 5/26/11 2:16 PM, Dennis Joachimsthaler wrote: > Wouldn't this be no immediate problem on Linux type OSs? There's usually > no execution bit set on files downloaded. Yes, that's the one saving grace. "Usually" is key, though. > And practically you can run ALL files as binaries, it looks for the ELF header as far as I know. There is little practical difference for the user between running a binary and running a perl script, and sneaking in a text file with a .pl extension might well make the latter happen... -Boris
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