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Re: [Full-disclosure] 4 Questions: Latest IE vulnerability,Firefox vs IE security, User vs Admin risk profile,and browsers coded in 100% Managed Verifiable code
From: "Andrew van der Stock" <vanderaj () greebo net>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:45:34 -0500
This is not quite true.Java does not prevent integer overflows (it will not throw an exception). So you still have to be careful about array indexes.
Andrew On 29/03/2006, at 12:49 PM, michaelslists () gmail com wrote:
no, a browser written in java would not have buffer overflow/stack issues. the jvm is specifically designed to prevent it ... -- Michael
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- Re: Java integer overflows (was: a really long topic), (continued)
- Re: Java integer overflows (was: a really long topic) michaelslists (Mar 28)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: Java integer overflows (was: a really long topic) Eliah Kagan (Mar 28)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: Java integer overflows (was: a really long topic) michaelslists (Mar 28)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: Java integer overflows (was: a really longtopic) michaelslists (Mar 28)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: Java integer overflows (was: a really longtopic) Eliah Kagan (Mar 28)
- [Full-disclosure] Re: Java integer overflows (was: a really longtopic) michaelslists (Mar 28)
- Re: Java integer overflows (was: a really long topic) Eoin (Mar 29)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Java integer overflows (was: a really long topic) Simon Roberts (Mar 29)
- RE: [Full-disclosure] Java integer overflows (was: a really long topic) Tim Hollebeek (Mar 30)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] 4 Questions: Latest IE vulnerability,Firefox vs IE security, User vs Admin risk profile,and browsers coded in 100% Managed Verifiable code michaelslists (Mar 28)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] 4 Questions: Latest IE vulnerability,Firefox vs IE security, User vs Admin risk profile,and browsers coded in 100% Managed Verifiable code Andrew van der Stock (Mar 28)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] 4 Questions: Latest IE vulnerability,Firefox vs IE security, User vs Admin risk profile,and browsers coded in 100% Managed Verifiable code Brian Eaton (Mar 29)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] 4 Questions: Latest IE vulnerability, Firefox vs IE security, User vs Admin risk profile, and browsers coded in 100% Managed Verifiable code Brian Eaton (Mar 29)