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: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 08:32:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 996679942 19004 129.241.83.82 (1 Aug 2001 15:32:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:32:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10948 comp.lang.c:71300 comp.lang.c++:79071 comp.lang.functional:7082 Date: 2001-08-01T15:32:22+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:09:12 -0400, Mike Smith wrote: > The buffer overflow occurs because of a bug in the *Microsoft* C library. > This is not endemic to C or C++ in general. The point is that if you look at the security bugs in Linux or Microsoft software they consists mainly of buffer overflow bugs. This comes from using languages such as C and C++ which allow buffer overflow due to their design. Other languages eliminate this problem to a large extent. -- Preben Randhol - Ph.D student - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ "i too once thought that when proved wrong that i lost somehow" - i was hoping, alanis morisette