Date: 29 Oct 2001 21:33:12 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Krzysztof Zaraska <kzaraska@student.uci.agh.edu.pl> Cc: Yuri Muhitov <muhitov@kostasoft.spb.ru>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BUFFER OVERFLOW EXPLOITS Message-ID: <xzp8zdu1913.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110281500030.6086-100000@lhotse.zaraska.dhs.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110281500030.6086-100000@lhotse.zaraska.dhs.org>
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Krzysztof Zaraska <kzaraska@student.uci.agh.edu.pl> writes: > On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Yuri Muhitov wrote: > > Is this programming, compiler or compiling options error? > > How to avoid this problem on practice (writing programs)? > This is programmer's error. Only partially correct. It is the result of programming errors which should be caught at compile or run time but aren't because the programming language used is not strongly typed, and / or its function library is not sufficiently type-safe. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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