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[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> writes:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > Let's clear the issue here...  FreeBSD did not have a choice in the
> > matter.
> Actually it did. The SIGABORT codepath was only executed in case the
> process is running under uid=0, in other cases it would just print out
> the warning. I think behaviour such as this is a violation of POLA as
> the behaviour is different depending on which users runs it (and if the
> allocator can clearly handle the situation for nonprivileged users, it
> can also handle it for root, but instead chose to be annoying).

So you think remote exploitable root vulnerabilities are OK?

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no