Re: FY Ammo: Study about Security Bugs

[Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>]

lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke) writes:

| http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1462855.html?tag=st.ne.1002.bgif.1003-200-1
| 
| Quick: What's the computer vulnerability of the decade?
| 
| It's not the Y2K bug, according to computer science and security analysts,
| but a security weakness known as the buffer overflow. Unlike the Y2K bug,
| which threatens to cripple computers unable to distinguish years written in
| two-digit shorthand, this vulnerability opens computers to attacks by
| malicious hackers, who can use the bug to commandeer the targeted computer.

Nitpick: Is Y2K really a security (to computer systems) bug/risk?

Pardon my ignorance, but are programs written in Ada 95 vulnerable to
buffer overflow ? I know C and C++ programs can be, if not coded
properly, but I would think Ada 95 programs wasn't (unless one are
perhaps interfacing towards C?). If somebody could shed some light on
this, it would be great.

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