- From: <Edgar@EdgarSchwarz.de>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 21:14:55 +0100 (MET)
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
- Cc: frey@inf.ethz.ch
- Cc: Edgar@EdgarSchwarz.de
"Jim Whitehead" <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu> > FYI. > > So, how many implementors on the list are confident *you* don't also have a > buffer overflow exploit lurking in your code? > > - Jim > > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-09.html > > CERTr Advisory CA-2003-09 Buffer Overflow in Microsoft IIS 5.0 > Original issue date: March 17, 2003 > Last revised: Mon Mar 17 14:34:35 EST 2003 > Source: CERT/CC A provocing question. So I think I will answer it: I'm pretty sure :-) I won't have a single line of C (The mother of all viruses) in my code and also on the whole server. In Oberon a buffer overflow can at most crash my WebDAV process and that's it. Edgar -- edgar@edgarschwarz.de "http://www.edgarschwarz.de" "http://www.edgar-schwarz.de/forum/oberon" Running Active Oberon Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
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