Re: Vulnerabilities in Synchronous IPC Designs

[Espen Skoglund]

[Marcus Brinkmann]
> For DoS attack examination, one also has to take into account that
> what you say is an exceptional event can be provoked by the client
> reliably.  So one has to ensure that even the exceptional even does
> not have any negative impact on the server in an asymmetric trust
> model.

Sure.  For the particular case we have been discussing---i.e., the
server specifies a zero xfer timeout---only the client itself will
suffer from provoking such exceptions.

        eSk