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On 2024-07-21 11:10, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Le 21/07/2024 à 10:00, Niklas Holsti a écrit :
>> But certainly, most attacks on SW have used functional bugs such as 
>> buffer overflows.
> 
> A problem that has been solved since 1983, and even before (Pascal had 
> bounds checking). Sigh...

Yup, however some crackpot could always suggest an attack on bounds 
checking, e.g. exception vs. not, index to bounds comparison dependent 
on the actual values etc, and then produce a lengthy paper on a 
constructed absolutely unrealistic scenario... (:-))

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