Re: [Full-disclosure] 4 Questions: Latest IE vulnerability,Firefox vs IE security, User vs Admin risk profile,and browsers coded in 100% Managed Verifiable code

["Andrew van der Stock" <vanderaj () greebo net>]

This is not quite true.

Java does not prevent integer overflows (it will not throw an  
exception). So you still have to be careful about array indexes.

Andrew

On 29/03/2006, at 12:49 PM, michaelslists () gmail com wrote:

> no, a browser written in java would not have buffer overflow/stack
> issues. the jvm is specifically designed to prevent it ...
>
> -- Michael

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