From: "Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr>
To: "Richard Jones" <rich@annexia.org>, <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Securely loading and running untrusted modules
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 21:55:32 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000f01c539de$c1859fd0$0c05a8c0@PWARP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050405121459.GA29378@furbychan.cocan.org>
> To prevent infinite loops, starting an alarm(2) before loading the
> module should kill the Apache process if it uses too much CPU time.
>
> I'm fairly sure that the method above should cope with everything
> barring bugs in the compiler and bugs in SafeAPI.
>
> Am I thinking right?
>
> Rich.
I think that current VM is optimized for speed and doesn't do more bytecode
checking than strictly necessary. That means that someone could forge some
bytecode file that would take control of the VM and then can call the whole
C api. Tricky, but feasible.
You might need to add load-time or runtime bytecode checks in order to
secure the VM.
Regards,
Nicolas Cannasse
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-05 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-05 12:14 Richard Jones
2005-04-05 12:55 ` Nicolas Cannasse [this message]
2005-04-05 13:16 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2005-04-05 14:09 ` Alex Baretta
[not found] ` <42529C01.2080609@barettadeit.com>
2005-04-05 14:17 ` Richard Jones
2005-04-05 14:36 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-04-05 20:58 ` sejourne_kevin
2005-04-05 21:02 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-04-06 7:59 ` sejourne_kevin
2005-04-05 14:38 ` Virgile Prevosto
2005-04-05 14:40 ` Daniel Bünzli
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