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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!nntp.terraraq.uk!.POSTED.tunnel.sfere.anjou.terraraq.org.uk!not-for-mail From: Richard Kettlewell Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: VMS Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:45:38 +0100 Organization: terraraq NNTP server Message-ID: References: <102ka4k$9umt$2@dont-email.me> <87tt4i9nw5.fsf@eder.anydns.info> <102l0h9$fjtb$5@dont-email.me> <4_GdncCsf-Nqe8n1nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10338ls$lpbg$4@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: innmantic.terraraq.uk; posting-host="tunnel.sfere.anjou.terraraq.org.uk:172.17.207.6"; logging-data="157564"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@innmantic.terraraq.uk" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6yv4mLudmTb8+EIZQn3bdC+ZLQU= X-Face: h[Hh-7npe<v9!1Z&W?r\c.!4DXH5PWpga"ha +r0NzP?vnz:e/knOY)PI- X-Boydie: NO The Natural Philosopher writes: > On 20/06/2025 05:43, c186282 wrote: >>> The software industry has been trying this for decades now. It does >>> not work. >>   At some point, soon, they need to start flagging >>   the unsafe functions as ERRORS, not just WARNINGS. > > The problem is that C was designed by two smart people to run on small > hardware for use by other smart people. Well, maybe, but the original Unix team still ended up with buffer overruns in their code. There’s a famous one in V7 mkdir, which ran with elevated privileged due to the inadequate kernel API. I’ve not tried to exploit it but it’s a pretty straightforward array overrun so almost certainly exploitable to escalate from a mortal user to root. -- https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/