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Software Vulnerabilities in Java

Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: Java is essentially a safe language: there is no explicit pointer manipulation; array and string bounds are automatically checked; attempts at referencing a null pointer are trapped; the arithmetic operations are well defined and platform independent, as are the type conversions. The built-in bytecode verifier ensures that these checks are always in place. This paper briefly describes these potential software vulnerabilities in the version of Java, Java 5.


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