Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 00:40:01 GMT From: Shawn Webb <lattera@gmail.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/180077: [rtld] [security] Potential DoS in RTLD Message-ID: <201307030040.r630e1Nw062313@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/180077; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Shawn Webb <lattera@gmail.com> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, lattera@gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: kern/180077: [rtld] [security] Potential DoS in RTLD Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 20:31:21 -0400 I understand that. I also understand that we're loading shared objects that can do what they want, since the purpose of a shared object is to execute code. If the author of a shared object wanted to DoS the service/system or execute arbitrary code, he could simply add code to do so. I just stumbled across this the other day and thought that it technically is a bug. A one-word fix would be easy to implement and could prevent weird headaches. I wouldn't regard the bug as important at all, given what I just previously said. The point is that it's still technically a bug.
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