Re: [SC-L] temporary directories

2007-01-02 Thread ljknews
At 8:45 AM -0500 12/30/06, Leichter, Jerry wrote: [MJoderator: This is likely beyond the point of general interest to sc-l] Actually, I disagree, in that it seems to expose a set of vulnerabilities not known even to language implementors. On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, ljknews wrote: | But these are

[SC-L] Luis Miras on automated exploit detection in binaries at CCC

2007-01-02 Thread Gadi Evron
CCC was amazing, and here is the video for one of the lectures. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5897236579900914407q=23c3 ___ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc -

Re: [SC-L] temporary directories

2007-01-02 Thread Leichter, Jerry
[MJoderator: This is likely beyond the point of general interest to sc-l] On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, ljknews wrote: | Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:49:01 -0500 | From: ljknews [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: sc-l@securecoding.org | Subject: Re: [SC-L] temporary directories | | At 6:56 PM -0500 12/29/06,

Re: [SC-L] temporary directories

2007-01-02 Thread Florian Weimer
I gather you are saying that the innards of Unix will force creation of an unwanted directory entry on the Ada implementation of the required null name support for packagename.CREATE . The Ada implementation could rely on exclusive access to the file (surely Unix has that, right?) You can

Re: [SC-L] temporary directories

2007-01-02 Thread ljknews
At 5:11 PM +0100 12/30/06, Florian Weimer wrote: I gather you are saying that the innards of Unix will force creation of an unwanted directory entry on the Ada implementation of the required null name support for packagename.CREATE . The Ada implementation could rely on exclusive access to

Re: [SC-L] Compilers

2007-01-02 Thread ljknews
At 2:18 PM + 1/2/07, Peter Amey wrote: [snip] Isn't the whole basis of Spark a matter of adding proof statements in the comments ? I don't think the general compiler marketplace would go for that built-in to compilers. After all: 1. The Praxis implementation can be used

Re: [SC-L] Compilers

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Amey
[snip] Isn't the whole basis of Spark a matter of adding proof statements in the comments ? I don't think the general compiler marketplace would go for that built-in to compilers. After all: 1. The Praxis implementation can be used with multiple compilers 2. The

Re: [SC-L] Compilers

2007-01-02 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
I think my perspective is not just about overlap in terms of an abstract syntax tree but more in terms of usability. Security warnings should appear inline with other types of warnings from a developers perspective. When the information is presented separately, it will be an opportunity to

[SC-L] Building Security In vs Auditing

2007-01-02 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
I read a recent press release in which a security vendor (names removed to both protect the innocent along with the fact that it doesn't matter for this discussion ) partnered with a prominent outsourcing firm. The press release was carefully worded but if you read into what wasn't said, it was

Re: [SC-L] temporary directories

2007-01-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Florian Weimer: I gather you are saying that the innards of Unix will force creation of an unwanted directory entry on the Ada implementation of the required null name support for packagename.CREATE . The Ada implementation could rely on exclusive access to the file (surely Unix has that,

Re: [SC-L] Building Security In vs Auditing

2007-01-02 Thread ljknews
At 9:46 AM -0500 1/2/07, McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) wrote: I read a recent press release in which a security vendor (names removed to both protect the innocent along with the fact that it doesn't matter for this discussion ) partnered with a prominent outsourcing firm. The press release was

Re: [SC-L] Compilers

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Amey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ljknews Sent: 02 January 2007 14:20 To: Secure Coding Subject: Re: [SC-L] Compilers At 2:18 PM + 1/2/07, Peter Amey wrote: [snip] We think so! However, like everything else, it is

Re: [SC-L] Compilers

2007-01-02 Thread Leichter, Jerry
| ...P.S. Please watch for the unfortunate word wrap in the URL of my | original post. The broken link still works but goes to thw wrong place! Now, *there's* an interesting hazard! One can imagine some interesting scenarios where this could be more than unfortunate. At the least, it could be