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Re:A Tale of Two Pwnies (Part 1) by tptacek on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @07:38PM (#4010686)
I definitely don't think that eliminating memory corruption vulnerabilities will produce security shangri-la. Most of the vulnerabilities we find every day aren't memory corruption.
Re:A Tale of Two Pwnies (Part 1) by jerf on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @10:08PM (#4011153)
I certainly didn't mean to imply that you had that belief by any means. My world (much smaller than yours, of course) is utterly dominated by the cross-X/injection complex of security vulnerabilities (cross-site scripting, SQL injection, shell command injection, all the same thing in the end really). I've also lost track of the times I've encountered the moral equivalents of "limited admin permitted to make new user accounts is capable of creating a full admin account and controlling its password" or some equally brain-dead simple privilege escalation that doesn't even involve anything "clever". I was just contextualizing.