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Some Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Some Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Posted Nov 10, 2004 23:09 UTC (Wed) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
In reply to: Some Linux kernel security vulnerabilities by NAR
Parent article: Some Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

No, not MUST handle, can handle. Imagine the chaos if an unhandled exception occurred in the kernel.


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Some Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Posted Nov 10, 2004 23:27 UTC (Wed) by khim (guest, #9252) [Link]

Java will not compile code with unhandled exceptions so, yes must handle indeed. Unfortunatelly there are some exceptions which can be ignored (like overflow in i++). Not sure if it's good thing or bad thing.

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