[DUG] Security/Buffer overflows

[David Brennan]

Hehe... I thought that too... ;-)



-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Ben Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, 10 January 2007 2:14 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Security/Buffer overflows

>    getMemory(buffer, 100 * SizeOf(Integer));
>    for i := 0 to 101 do // woops! should be 100, not 101. Bufferoverflow!

i assume you left the obvious flaw there as an indication of how easy it is
to mess
this up? :-)

> there is no way to guard against this except careful programming
andtesting. 
well.. there is.. i can go into a deeper discussion/example here if anyone
is
interested..


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