OT: IE6 appears to fix mime-type bug (was Re: New Python WebMailapp)

John Roth johnroth at ameritech.net
Thu Sep 20 18:20:59 EDT 2001


"Lee, Rick [SKY:QG00:EXCH]" <rickylee at americasm01.nt.com> wrote in message
news:3BA9FFBB.25F94358 at americasm01.nt.com...
> Any technical report on asssessment of Python's and Python internet
servers's
> susceptibility to common vulnerabilities like Buffer Overflow?
>
> - Rick Lee
>

Python programs are not successable to buffer overflow, since they
don't use pointers. The same can't be said for the Python interpreter, the
TCL
interpreter, the TK interpreter or any extension modules, since they are
written
in C.

John Roth






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