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From: "Jeroen Frijters" <jeroen@sumatra.nl>
To: "Olivier Jolly" <olivier.jolly@pcedev.com>
Cc: <mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com>,
		"Mauve Patch List" <mauve-patches@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: RE: runFinalization in Classloader.initialize doesn't run on cacao
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D92197D0A6547B44A1567814F851FA681805CA@LEMBU.sumatrasoftware.com> (raw)

Olivier Jolly wrote:
> Ok, I feared something like this. However, the way this test 
> is written seems very obscure (to me at least). Could you advise me
why
> is the class loader created with an exception thrown in the
constructor
> and then the reference to the semi-created instance  is retrieved in
the
> finalizer. And then I wonder why it then raises SecurityException
> instead of ClassFormatError. I reread about the finalizer semantic and
> the ClassLoader api without finding a clue.

Read http://www.securingjava.com/chapter-five/chapter-five-8.html for a
description of the class loader attack that this is simulating.

Regards,
Jeroen

             reply	other threads:[~2006-03-11 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-11 21:58 Jeroen Frijters [this message]
2006-03-11 22:18 ` Olivier Jolly
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-11 19:07 Jeroen Frijters
2006-03-11 21:26 ` Olivier Jolly
2006-03-11 18:50 Olivier Jolly

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