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This is not a crash!

Posted Oct 21, 2004 15:21 UTC (Thu) by spudbeach (guest, #5837)
In reply to: How to kill a web browser by nix
Parent article: How to kill a web browser

A "crash" is when a program completes incorrectly, often with a segfault. A compiler saying "giving up" isn't a crash -- it is a normal termination for bad input. No signal, no possibility of exploitation, and the user got some output that is useful.

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Posted Oct 22, 2004 13:46 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The old `bailing out' message was triggered, IIRC, by a SIGSEGV being caught. So there was a signal.

I doubt it could be regarded as exploitable, though. :)