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		saagarjha on Nov 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CVE-2019-1347: When a mouse over a file is enough ... > IIRC, the binfmt elf code in the Linux kernel basically only does enough elf parsing to map everything into memory and kick off the linker. Even for statically linked executables?

meithecatte on Nov 17, 2019 [–]

For a statically linked executable, the minimal parsing is enough to kick off the executable directly. After all, the linker is "just" a statically linked executable...

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