RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: GAYER THAN AIDS ADVISORY #01: IE 5 remote code execution

[Steve Wray <steve.wray@paradise.net.nz>]

> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com] On Behalf Of 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
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>
>Oh, give me a break. Some developer went, "Oh, hey, I'm not bounds
>checking there. Okay, fix that," and the changes filtered out into
>the release of IE.

I'm curious. As a non-C programmer, is there ever a reason to
*not* do bounds checking? (I mean outside of intensely performance
critical applications like realtime control systems (which would
probably be better in assembly anyway). I don't count an OS or a
web browser as 'intensely performance critical'; they are, rather,
'intensely security and stability critical').

Thanks!

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