Re: Privilege-escalation attacks on NT-based Windows are unfixable
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Date: 28 Aug 2002 17:14:47 GMT
Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2@earthlink.net> writes:
>The Perl programming language, with taint checking enabled, comes pretty
>close to being a secure programming language.
But it has all the same problems as other complicated runtime environments;
they're impossible to "get right"; witness the buffer overflows and
other security bugs in the perl interpreter proper.
Casper
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