Michael Howard's Spot the security bug problem.

[Mugunth]

Do anyone know the answer to this problem?

Int16 req;
....
while (true) {
getRequest();
req++;
arr[req] = DateTime.Now;
}

Can you spot this code flaw?

From this link...
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972827.aspx

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Mugunth

[Mufaka]

Re: Michael Howard's Spot the security bug problem.

I don't know if we really have enough info, but index 0 *appears* to be
skipped.

while (true) {
getRequest();
arr[req] = DateTime.Now;
req++;
}

Mugunth wrote:

Do anyone know the answer to this problem?
>
Int16 req;
...
while (true) {
getRequest();
req++;
arr[req] = DateTime.Now;
}
>
Can you spot this code flaw?
>
From this link...
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972827.aspx
>
-
Mugunth