[Haskell-cafe] More on the random idea

Gaal Yahas gaal at forum2.org
Mon May 28 12:26:46 EDT 2007


On 5/26/07, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
> > We should document all the interesting exploits that have been found
> > over the years!
>
> Ok, I'm making
> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Safely_running_untrusted_Haskell_code

That page mentions:

* very large array allocations can integer overflow the storage
manager, allowing arbitrary memory access

Does this still happen? Sounds like a serious bug in the runtime.

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