[DUG] Security/Buffer overflows

[John Bird]

A general question:
 
We all read of the constant updates to Windows/Acrobat reader/IE/Firefox due
mainly to buffer overflow vulnerability.  I understand most of these are C++
applications where there are inherent problems with the string
implementation and I am wondering what vulnerabilities may be in Delphi
applications to be aware of.
 
I understand the string type is a bit better defined in Delphi, however
often internally there are calls to Win32 routines, often using PChar, which
still may expose vulnerabilities in the Win32 API etc.  which may be beyond
control of a Delphi programmer.
 
This is apart from the issue of Memory leaks.
 

John

 

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