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- Subject: Re: The security of function load
- From: Rena <hyperhacker@...>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:11:29 -0400
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 4:24 PM Yongheng Chen <changochen1@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The function load accepts a binary chunk as argument. I wonder if is it memory-safe against malformed binary chunks? I couldn’t find related materials about it.
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> Best,
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> Yongheng Chen
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It is not. Previous efforts to harden it against such attacks proved
more work than it was worth. You can prevent loading binary chunks
entirely, but in general you must trust the code being loaded.
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