Vulnerability Development: Re: Delphi and buffer overflows

From: Gadi Evron <ge_at_linuxbox.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 03:52:56 +0200

Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:46:06 GMT, Majid2k_at_SourceForge.net said:
>
>>All Programs compiled in Delphi are secure
>
>
> Explain. Do tell. How does a language manage to be Turing-complete and
> at the same time provably secure? (Hint - Turing-complete includes the
> possibility of a program infinite looping, so at the very least, there's
> the possibility of a loop causing a DoS attack....)
>
> Or did Delphi use some different definition of "secure"?

Valdis, I tend to like Delphi and agree with the guy, but you are 100%
correct.

That is because [especially] in the world of security the following
words should be banned: all, every, never, etc.

I bet that if you put a backdoor into a program written in Delphi it
will no longer be 100% secure, right? That may be a bit of immature
nitpicking, but really..
Received on Apr 08 2006