December 28, 2004

Secure programmer: Call components safely

David Wheeler has released a new article on how to call components safely. He posted this abstract on SCL this morning:

Application programs typically make calls to other components, such as the underlying operating system, database systems, reusable libraries, Internet services (like DNS), Web services, and so on. This article explains how to prevent attackers from exploiting those calls to other components by discussing the use of only secure components, passing only valid data, making sure the data will be correctly interpreted, checking return values and exceptions, and protecting data as it flows between applications and components.

It was a great article. Good insight. Happy reading.

Posted by SilverStr at December 28, 2004 10:52 AM | TrackBack