[SC-L] 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]

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 at 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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