← Back to context Comment by michaelt 5 days ago BRB, raising a CVE complaining the OOM killer exists. 7 comments michaelt Reply pamcake 5 days 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 5 days ago I could be wrong. But operation by design isn't considered a bug. samus 5 days ago It is if some other condition is violated that is more important. Then the design might have to be reconsidered. suspended_state 5 days ago If it is faulty, then it's not a bug, it's a flaw. lfllfkddl 4 days ago It is possible to design a security vulnerability. 1 reply → SSLy 4 days ago you either get OOMed or next malloc fails and that's also going to wreck havoc
pamcake 5 days 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 5 days ago I could be wrong. But operation by design isn't considered a bug. samus 5 days ago It is if some other condition is violated that is more important. Then the design might have to be reconsidered. suspended_state 5 days ago If it is faulty, then it's not a bug, it's a flaw. lfllfkddl 4 days ago It is possible to design a security vulnerability. 1 reply →
samus 5 days ago It is if some other condition is violated that is more important. Then the design might have to be reconsidered.
suspended_state 5 days ago If it is faulty, then it's not a bug, it's a flaw. lfllfkddl 4 days ago It is possible to design a security vulnerability. 1 reply →
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.
It is possible to design a security vulnerability.
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you either get OOMed or next malloc fails and that's also going to wreck havoc