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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Steffen Dettmer <steffen.dettmer@googlemail.com>
Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Backtrace extraction ONLY gdb
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110324130117.GA21207@host1.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTind311WYUV4+PMzM95TJ8LMdU3J73=8Jt5Bb==g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:28:40 +0100, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
> If this isn't prohibited on the mission critical production
> system for security reasons...  From the core file, potentially
> all sorts of sensitive information could be revealed I think.

The same security concerns apply to backtraces containing parameters - being
discussed here as the goal.  Sometimes the parameter is a cleartext password,
for example.


Regards,
Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-24 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-21 17:13 Maucci, Cyrille
2011-03-21 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-23 22:17   ` Maucci, Cyrille
2011-03-23 22:43     ` Joel Brobecker
2011-03-23 22:51       ` Maucci, Cyrille
2011-03-24  5:25         ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-27 20:26           ` Maucci, Cyrille
2011-04-22 20:49           ` Maucci, Cyrille
2011-04-22 20:54             ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-24 10:25         ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-24 11:09           ` Maucci, Cyrille
2011-03-24 10:28       ` Steffen Dettmer
2011-03-24 13:01         ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2011-03-22 16:46 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-23 22:21   ` Maucci, Cyrille
2011-03-24 17:13     ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-24 17:20     ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-24 19:00       ` Maucci, Cyrille

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