From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: FY Ammo: Study about Security Bugs
Date: 1999/11/26
Date: 1999-11-26T09:59:09+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3yabltvy5.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 81k5oi$44k$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
[...]
| There are two reasons for this
|
| 1. If checks are on, out of range subscripts will be caught
| by exceptions.
Which pragmas do one have to set to turn the checks on (if not by
default). Looked at the Annex L in RM, but it didn't make it clearer.
| 2. Even if checks are off, the kind of low level programming
| approaches used in C (memcpy for example) are typically not used
| in Ada, so it is far less likely that Ada code would be
| susceptible to such attacks.
I see. Thanks!
--
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-25 0:00 FY Ammo: Study about Security Bugs Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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