Re: [patch] safety of Lua byte code

2013-11-17 Thread Mouse
> Nobody would seriously claim, I think, that one can algorithmically > determine whether a given fragment of Lua *source* code is malicious. It is impossible, because the _very same code_ may be fairly called malicious when presented for execution by an attacker but not when presented for executi

RE: [patch] safety of Lua byte code

2013-11-17 Thread Terry Moore
> Am 17.11.13 22:03, schrieb Terry Moore: > >> From: Marc Balmer [mailto:m...@msys.ch] > >> > >>> It's not *much* less safe than compiling and executing a string in the > >>> kernel. The only additional attack surfaces are that you can write > > things > >>> that the compiler wouldn't write. This c