Security of binary_to_term ?

Pascal Brisset pascal.brisset@REDACTED
Wed Jun 27 13:15:21 CEST 2001


erlang:binary_to_term/1 generally exits with 'badarg' when applied to
invalid inputs. Is this behaviour guaranteed ? In other words, is it
safe to decode untrusted data with binary_to_term ?

The purpose is to send data between untrusted nodes with
term_to_binary and binary_to_term over TCP, rather than with the
erlang distribution protocol.

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