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by reasonishy 3952 days ago
How many memory corruption / buffer overflow exploits have there been say in the JVM?

Using something like Java does cut out a whole class of memory exploits...

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>How many memory corruption / buffer overflow exploits have there been say in the JVM?

There have actually been quite a lot. But they're generally not things that could be exploited in a typical Java network/web application. They're mostly an issue for sandbox escapes; e.g. Java applets in the browser.