timers-urgent-2023-02-19
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18 Feb 23:34
Posix-timers armed with a short interval with an ignored signal result in an unpriviledged DoS. Due to the ignored signal the timer switches into self rearm mode. This issue had been "fixed" before but a rework of the alarmtimer code 5 years ago lost that workaround. There is no real good solution for this issue, which is also worked around in the core posix-timer code in the same way, but it certainly moved way up on the ever growing todo list.