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Re: Hack Java

On Jan 24,  5:33pm, Matthew Sheppard wrote:
> Aside from memory management in java being internal to the virtual
> machine as covered in other posts  Java is a strongly typed language.
> There is no notion of void * (pointers that point to anything) and the
> current implementation ensures the pointer is either null or valid.
>
> Even if you could the current implementation disallows any pointer
> arithmetic at all! i.e no pointer++;
>
>-- End of excerpt from Matthew Sheppard

I think the mentioned security hole is not a source level problem. The question
is how will the Java interpreter act, if there is a patched applet. Is there
any control of pointer assignments?


- Rainer

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