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> poisoning a Mutex is a very convenient avenue for a denial-of-service attack, since a poisoned Mutex will just completely brick a given critical section.

There's a tension between making DoS hard and avoiding RCE vulnerabilities, since the way to avoid an unplanned/bad code state becoming an RCE vulnerability is to crash as quickly and thoroughly as possible when you get into that state.



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