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: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 06:09:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!sn-xit-04!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Mike Smith" 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. Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:09:12 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10937 comp.lang.c:71274 comp.lang.c++:79038 comp.lang.functional:7075 Date: 2001-08-01T09:09:12-04:00 List-Id: "raj" wrote in message news:ppsemtojqkqsqpfvj1th3mae8b4vu1tg89@4ax.com... > > The buffer overflow occurs because of an old and well known bug in the > C libraries. The buffer overflow occurs because of a bug in the *Microsoft* C library. This is not endemic to C or C++ in general. And, what, no one has ever found a bug in Ada? -- Mike Smith