no, a browser written in java would not have buffer overflow/stack
issues. the jvm is specifically designed to prevent it ...
-- Michael
On 3/29/06, Pavel Kankovsky <peak_at_argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Brian Eaton wrote:
>
> > If I run a pure-java browser, for example, no web site's HTML code is
> > going to cause a buffer overflow in the parser.
>
> Even a "pure-java browser" would rest on the top of a huge pile of native
> code (OS, JRE, native libraries). A seemingly innocent piece of data
> passed to that native code might trigger a bug (perhaps even a buffer
> overflow) in it...
>
> Unlikely (read: less likely than a direct attack vector) but still
> possible.
>
> --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
> "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
>
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