Adding binfmt configuration to official Wine packages

Alex Henrie alexhenrie24 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 21:26:51 CDT 2016


I am positive that binfmt poses no real security concern. It would
simply make Windows binaries interchangeable with Linux binaries, and
all of the security protections that currently apply to Linux binaries
would apply equally to Windows binaries. Some versions of Windows
happily executed binaries from USB drives or from the Internet without
asking, but that does not happen on Linux. In fact, it's easy to
forget that you have to explicitly give execution permissions to a
downloaded file before Linux will let you execute it. If the file is
on a USB drive, unless the drive has a Linux filesystem, the binary
must be moved off of the drive before it can receive execution
permissions.

I think the real problem here is a technical one: The loader would
have to launch Wine, Mono, or DOSBox depending on the contents of the
binary.

-Alex



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