From: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
To: "David D. Hagood" <wowbagger@sktc.net>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Michael Frank <mhf@linuxmail.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dumb question: Why are exceptions such as SIGSEGV not logged
Date: 16 Aug 2003 19:17:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oeypb3au.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "David D. Hagood"'s message of "Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:06:34 -0500"
"David D. Hagood" <wowbagger@sktc.net> writes:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> > Consider this code:
> > char *foo = 0;
> > sigset(SIGSEGV,SIG_IGNORE);
> > for(;;) { *foo = '\5'; }
> > Your logfiles just got DoS'ed....
>
>
> Why not then just log uncaught exceptions?
You can still DoS by forking repeatedly and having the child die with
SEGV...
-Doug
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-16 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-16 20:10 Dumb question: Why are exceptions such as SIGSEGV not logged Michael Frank
2003-08-16 20:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-08-16 21:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-16 23:06 ` David D. Hagood
2003-08-16 23:17 ` Doug McNaught [this message]
2003-08-16 23:41 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-08-17 8:17 ` Russell King
2003-08-16 23:49 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-17 20:54 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-08-18 4:28 ` Michael Frank
2003-08-18 9:15 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-19 2:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-08-19 13:27 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-19 19:28 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-19 19:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-08-19 20:01 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-18 14:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-18 17:52 ` Michael Frank
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2003-08-17 14:29 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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2003-08-18 1:56 Hank Leininger
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2003-08-17 12:43 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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2003-08-17 12:52 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-17 13:09 ` Alan Cox
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2003-08-18 9:34 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-18 17:26 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-18 20:50 Hank Leininger
2003-08-18 21:02 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-18 21:18 ` Hank Leininger
2003-08-18 21:25 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-18 22:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-18 22:39 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-18 22:44 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-18 22:53 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-19 6:54 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-08-19 14:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-08-19 18:51 ` David Schwartz
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