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by michaelt 165 days ago
BRB, raising a CVE complaining the OOM killer exists.
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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.
Oh, now that is an exciting area.
you either get OOMed or next malloc fails and that's also going to wreck havoc