SharedLibLoader loading more then one lib and SecureClassLoader

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Tue Jul 8 14:14:00 GMT 2003


>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de> writes:

Michael> URLClassLoader supports loading solib ? Isnt this a security whole ? 
Michael> If I prepare a special .so file on a webserver, can I then import bad 
Michael> code into the JVM ?

You can only load local .so files.  And, once security checks are
added, we'll add a check here to prevent untrusted code from loading
one.

Tom



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