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Even still, pure interpreters are not immune to vulnerabilities. One buffer overflow or bad array lookup and you're hosed.
by bastawhiz 11y ago
Even still, pure interpreters are not immune to vulnerabilities. One buffer overflow or bad array lookup and you're hosed.
- wglb 11y agoI must admit that I haven't heard of buffer overflows in emacs lisp.
- hollerith 11y agoRight. When all of the language's data structures are garbage collected and the language has no pointer types, buffer overflows become much rarer. There are a few array-lookup operations like AREF, but they do bounds checking (at run time, when the check is easier to get right).