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- From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
- Date: 09 Apr 1996 22:40:19 GMT
- Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
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- In-reply-to: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca's message of 9 Apr 1996 08:40:02 -0700
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- I hope that everyone following this thread knows that this
- "undefined" behavior lead to one of the security holes exploited by
- the Morris Internet worm.
-
- Undefined only means unusable in some contexts, and if the C read
- had a way to know the size of the buffer passed, that particular
- security hole would not have existed.
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- --
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- Robert I. Eachus
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