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,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 12:08:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. References: <%CX97.14134$ar1.47393@www.newsranger.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 19:08:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 996692884 24.7.82.199 (Wed, 01 Aug 2001 12:08:04 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 12:08:04 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10975 Date: 2001-08-01T19:08:04+00:00 List-Id: >Exploitable buffer overflows are a known *class* of bugs that are pretty >much endemic with C (and C++ that uses C) code. Of course they also depend on not using hardware designed with security in mind.