Re: [Full-disclosure] 4 Questions: Latest IE vulnerability,Firefox vs IE security, User vs Admin risk profile,and browsers coded in 100% Managed Verifiable code

No you dont.

Arrays are all bounds checked; ..., that is, the following code will
throw an exception:

================================
class Foo {
  static {
    int[] m = new int[2];
    System.out.println(m[34]);
  }
}
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What do you mean by "overflow"? Do you mean this?

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class Foo {
  static {
    int m = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
    int k = Integer.MAX_VALUE + Integer.MAX_VALUE;
    System.out.println(m);
    System.out.println(k);
    System.exit(0);
  }
}
================================

if so, I don't see how that is an issue.

-- Michael

On 3/29/06, Andrew van der Stock <vanderaj_at_greebo.net> wrote:
> This is not quite true.
>
> Java does not prevent integer overflows (it will not throw an
> exception). So you still have to be careful about array indexes.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 29/03/2006, at 12:49 PM, michaelslists_at_gmail.com wrote:
>
> > no, a browser written in java would not have buffer overflow/stack
> > issues. the jvm is specifically designed to prevent it ...
> >
> > -- Michael
>
>
>

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