Issues caused by reading arbitrary number of bytes
-
-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 34.7k
Open
5 of 7 issues completed
Open
5 of 7 issues completed
Assignees
Description
This is a meta-issue for a group of similar issues that have the same root cause: reading a number of bytes when the number is specified by the user/external source. Since read(n) is usually implemented by allocating a buffer of size n and then reading into it, this can cause arbitrary memory consumption which leads to swapping.
Linked PRs
Metadata
Metadata
Assignees
Labels
Fields
No fields configured for issues without a type.
Projects
No projects
Milestone
No milestone
Relationships
None yet
Development
No branches or pull requests