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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Shortcut...... may cause 100% cpu use!!!
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- Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Shortcut...... may cause 100% cpu use!!!
- From: madsaxon <madsaxon@direcway.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:19:55 -0600
At 07:37 AM 10/30/03 -0800, Bipin Gautam wrote:
BUT THE POINT HERE IS....... THE SHORTCUT IS POINTING TO ITSELF WHICH
WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO A DOS!!!
It seems to me that what you've discovered is that infinite loops are
resource hogs. I wouldn't call this a vulnerability so much as a computer
science 101 revelation. Interesting from a theoretical perspective,
perhaps, but not really worthy of a lot of discussion here. If someone
is able to plant a self-referencing shortcut on your desktop, you have,
as they say, larger fish to fry.
m5x
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