Secure Coding mailing list archives

Programming language comparison?


From: ljknews at mac.com (ljknews)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:51:36 -0500

At 4:41 PM -0500 2/4/08, Steven M. Christey wrote:
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Robert A. Martin wrote:

You still need to add to that issues that apply to all languages
versus these lists of language specific weaknesses and C and C++ have
significant overlap given their relationship.

There is an important point to keep in mind when using the (current) CWE
views.  Some weaknesses have been marked with an "All Languages" tag, even
though they might be more prevalent in certain languages.  For example,
format string problems can happen in any language that uses format strings
("%99999999s" to fill up disk or memory, anybody?), so it's marked with
"All" and it's not in the C-specific view, even though there's a heavy
concentration of format strings in C/C++.

It is marked as "All" ?

What is the construct in Ada that has such a risk ?
-- 
Larry Kilgallen


Current thread: