From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,62f1e030ed61b97b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-13 20:29:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newshub.sdsu.edu!west.cox.net!cox.net!news-east.rr.com!cyclone.kc.rr.com!news.kc.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D096346.F92BEF64@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: newbie inquiry References: <4519e058.0206130719.7e4a68e2@posting.google.com> <3D095AF6.8040209@telepath.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 03:29:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1024025386 66.75.151.160 (Thu, 13 Jun 2002 20:29:46 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 20:29:46 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25920 Date: 2002-06-14T03:29:46+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > Actually, though there is little room for doubt on this one. You > *cannot* get buffer overflow exploits in Ada without disabling > constraint checking (or using Unchecked programming). Nowadays, I think it's a minority of security breaches that take advantage of buffer overflows. Inappropriate scripting certainly wouldn't be solved solely with Ada. For example, the security hole whereby Netscape 4.x sends the URL of the previous page as the referrer to the next server even when you didn't get to the next server by following a link has nothing to do with buffer overflows. -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** My brain needs a "back" button so I can remember where I left my coffee mug.