Re: large allocation with 'io.read' function

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 03-Mar-17 13:19, Lorenzo Donati wrote:
> Anyway the solution is easy, just enclose the io.read function in a
> wrapper function that does size checking against a limit reasonable for
> _your_ setup/system.

A custom allocator limiting total allocation would protect against any 
memory-based DoS, as far as Lua is concerned.

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  Enrico