On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 1:31 PM Aleksa Sarai [off-list ref] wrote:

Yup, I've dropped the patch for the next version. (To be honest, I'm not
sure why I included any of the other flags -- the only one that would've
been necessary to deal with CVE-2019-5736 was AT_NO_MAGICLINKS.)

I do wonder if we could try to just set AT_NO_MAGICLINKS
unconditionally for execve() (and certainly for the suid case).

I'd rather try to do these things across the board, than have "suid
binaries are treated specially" if at all possible.

The main use case for having /proc/<pid>/exe thing is for finding open
file descriptors, and for 'ps' kind of use, or to find the startup
directory when people don't populate the execve() environment fully
(ie "readlink(/proc/self/exe)" is afaik pretty common.

Sadly, googling for

    execve /proc/self/exe

does actually find hits, including one that implies that chrome does
exactly that.  So it might not be possible.

Somewhat odd, but it does just confirm the whole "users will at some
point do everything in their power to use every odd special case,
intended or not".

                  Linus