From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
To: rich@annexia.org
Cc: alex@barettadeit.com, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Securely loading and running untrusted modules
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:36:31 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050405.233631.126985691.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050405141744.GA11816@furbychan.cocan.org>
From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
> A much more serious problem which I've just found is that _any_ module
> (even the empty module) seems to require Pervasives. Thus it seems to
> be impossible to create any OCaml code which could be loaded by
> Dynlink where Dynlink.allow_only does not specify "Pervasives".
This is why there is a compiler option named -nopervasives.
Basically your approach is right. If you compile the .ml files
yourself, this is safe, as long as there is no bug in the compiler.
Since there are certainly some, you have to follow messages on the
list and upgrade the compiler when needed, as for any security
issue...
Jacques Garrigue
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-05 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-05 12:14 Richard Jones
2005-04-05 12:55 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Cannasse
2005-04-05 13:16 ` Richard Jones
2005-04-05 14:09 ` Alex Baretta
[not found] ` <42529C01.2080609@barettadeit.com>
2005-04-05 14:17 ` Richard Jones
2005-04-05 14:36 ` Jacques Garrigue [this message]
2005-04-05 20:58 ` sejourne_kevin
2005-04-05 21:02 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-04-06 7:59 ` sejourne_kevin
2005-04-05 14:38 ` Virgile Prevosto
2005-04-05 14:40 ` Daniel Bünzli
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