bugtraq - Re: Buffer overflow prevention

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Message-ID: <20030814214854.GO4151@metux.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:48:54 +0200
From: weigelt@...ux.de
To: bugtraq <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Buffer overflow prevention


On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:19:03AM -0400, Sam Baskinger wrote:

> It sounds like array bounds checking would offer an almost equivalent effect.  
> This would not stop mis-casting a struct and referencing out of it or similar 
> casting+address calcuation errors.  To prevent that you would need either a 
> language that prevented the production of that sort of code or to solve the 
> halting problem.

once you have such an language, you also can use an garbage collector
and so throw away an wide field of problems.

cu
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