From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Nicolas Cannasse <warplayer@free.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Securely loading and running untrusted modules
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:16:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050405131608.GB5103@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000f01c539de$c1859fd0$0c05a8c0@PWARP>
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:55:32PM +0900, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> I think that current VM is optimized for speed and doesn't do more bytecode
> checking than strictly necessary. That means that someone could forge some
> bytecode file that would take control of the VM and then can call the whole
> C api. Tricky, but feasible.
I'm hoping that by compiling from source I'll avoid any bytecode
attacks. Is there a way to generate faulty bytecode from a source
file?
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-05 13:16 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 [this message]
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
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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