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Sure.. so how is an infinite loop a security vulnerability?

• JadeNB 11y ago
  If you are performing data processing on user-supplied inputs (as online compilers do), then an infinite loop can amount to a DoS attack.
• yk 11y ago
  The argument is the other way around, if a program halts on all inputs, then there is no possibility to inject arbitrary code. ( There may still be important security vulnerabilities, but there are some limits. Consider a debugger that executes the first 10 000 operations of a program, it would halt, but 10 000 operations is a lot of space to do something malicious.)
• coldtea 11y ago
  Security doesn't end with "privilege escalation". "Killing" (DoS) a system is also an attack.