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Re: Vulnerabilities in Synchronous IPC Designs


From: Jean-Charles Salzeber
Subject: Re: Vulnerabilities in Synchronous IPC Designs
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 19:29:35 +0200
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 18:21, Niels Möller wrote:
> 2. Use one server thread per user. Then any user can only DOS-attack
>    his or her own processes.

The malicious code might also be put in a 'fine' process (using a buffer
overflow for example)... Having all root processes DOS-attacked because
of only one 1 bug is somewhat annoying :)

JC




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