Greetings,
Having failed to sleep I constructed a tiny example patch that might
crash your Pd or worse.
It's based on the XML Entity Explosion attack, but I was initially
inspired by some recent exponential type-checking time discussion on
the Haskell mailing lists.
Claude
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WHY
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:06:53 +0100
From: claudiusmaxi...@goto10.org
To: pd-list@iem.at
Subject: [PD] denial of service attack
Greetings,
Having failed to sleep I constructed a tiny example patch that might
crash your Pd or worse.
It's based on the XML Entity
: [PD] denial of service attack
Greetings,
Having failed to sleep I constructed a tiny example patch that might
crash your Pd or worse.
It's based on the XML Entity Explosion attack, but I was initially
inspired by some recent exponential type-checking time discussion
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Andrew Faraday wrote:
WHY
Yeah, frankly, it's a lot easier to eat all RAM in other ways.
#N canvas 0 0 450 300 10;
#X obj 6 27 loadbang;
#X obj 6 8 namecanvas z;
#X obj 6 46 until;
#X msg 6 65 \; z obj 0 0 table foo 1000;
#X connect 0 0 2 0;
#X connect 2 0 3 0;
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.cawrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Andrew Faraday wrote:
WHY
Yeah, frankly, it's a lot easier to eat all RAM in other ways.
#N canvas 0 0 450 300 10;
#X obj 6 27 loadbang;
#X obj 6 8 namecanvas z;
#X obj 6 46 until;
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, András Murányi wrote:
OK, you're all welcome to crash my pd but not to run hostile code on my
machine. Now, we now that the code posted my Claude can eat up our RAM
but can it write to an executable region or do other really nasty
things? On the other hand - does a fresh
2009/10/17 Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, András Murányi wrote:
OK, you're all welcome to crash my pd but not to run hostile code on my
machine. Now, we now that the code posted my Claude can eat up our RAM but
can it write to an executable region or do other
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, András Murányi wrote:
2009/10/17 Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca
Just [textfile] and [soundfiler] are enough to overwrite important files. A
user's most important data is typically writable, and write-protected files
are usually the files that are easy to reinstall from
