What are the effects of changing mount options with nodev,noexec,nosuid on /tmp and /dev/shm?

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Issue

For any organisation conducting a security audit. Some audits might recommend
the following changes in fstab.

How evident are these changes to affect an ongoing production system?

Recommended Corrective Control: "Restrict the actions that can be performed
on partitions via the /etc/fstab as follows:

• Add nodev, nosuid and noexec option to /dev/shm
• Add nodev, nosuid, and noexec option to /tmp

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux - 5.6
device-mapper-multipath - 0.4.7-17

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