Fwd: Re: [PATCH] malloc: Abort on heap corruption, without a backtrace [BZ #21754]

[Florian Weimer]

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] malloc: Abort on heap corruption, without a
backtrace [BZ #21754]
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:21:10 +0000
From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 7:52 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> I really         think we should avoid generating backtraces on heap
> corruption.  The process is in a precarious state at this point, and
> doing more work at this point risks obscuring the root cause of the
> corruption or enabling code execution exploits.


I am not familiar with this part of the code but I agree with this logic.

(Please forward to the list, I can't send plaintext email right now)

zw