Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities

On Wed, 25 May 2005 01:32:36 +0000, Bryan Olson wrote:
> A stray pointer
> anywhere in the process can reach into objects of the array
> class and change them to an invalid state, such that they
> subsequently index out of bounds. Modern languages with strong
> type systems do not allow such things to happen.

That (the ability to access any (mapped) memory address) is a
characteristic of the hardware on which most compiled programs run.
Modern languages don't help you whenever your pointers get handed to you
by external modules or corrupted by hardware failures.

That sounds like a perfect place for the segment descriptor/capability
machine fans to leap back into the fray :-) Have at it...

-- 
Andrew