← Back to context Comment by SSLy 2 months ago plainly, crash = DoS = security issue = CVE.QED. 9 comments SSLy Reply michaelt 2 months ago BRB, raising a CVE complaining the OOM killer exists. pamcake 2 months ago Memory leaks are usually (accurately) treated as DoS. OoM killer is a mitigation to contain them and not DoS the entire OS. worthless-trash 2 months ago I could be wrong. But operation by design isn't considered a bug. samus 2 months ago It is if some other condition is violated that is more important. Then the design might have to be reconsidered. suspended_state 2 months ago If it is faulty, then it's not a bug, it's a flaw. 2 replies → SSLy 2 months ago you either get OOMed or next malloc fails and that's also going to wreck havoc
michaelt 2 months ago BRB, raising a CVE complaining the OOM killer exists. pamcake 2 months ago Memory leaks are usually (accurately) treated as DoS. OoM killer is a mitigation to contain them and not DoS the entire OS. worthless-trash 2 months ago I could be wrong. But operation by design isn't considered a bug. samus 2 months ago It is if some other condition is violated that is more important. Then the design might have to be reconsidered. suspended_state 2 months ago If it is faulty, then it's not a bug, it's a flaw. 2 replies → SSLy 2 months ago you either get OOMed or next malloc fails and that's also going to wreck havoc
pamcake 2 months ago Memory leaks are usually (accurately) treated as DoS. OoM killer is a mitigation to contain them and not DoS the entire OS.
worthless-trash 2 months ago I could be wrong. But operation by design isn't considered a bug. samus 2 months ago It is if some other condition is violated that is more important. Then the design might have to be reconsidered. suspended_state 2 months ago If it is faulty, then it's not a bug, it's a flaw. 2 replies →
samus 2 months ago It is if some other condition is violated that is more important. Then the design might have to be reconsidered.
BRB, raising a CVE complaining the OOM killer exists.
Memory leaks are usually (accurately) treated as DoS. OoM killer is a mitigation to contain them and not DoS the entire OS.
I could be wrong. But operation by design isn't considered a bug.
It is if some other condition is violated that is more important. Then the design might have to be reconsidered.
If it is faulty, then it's not a bug, it's a flaw.
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you either get OOMed or next malloc fails and that's also going to wreck havoc