Java Floating Point Bug Can Lock Up Servers 157
An anonymous reader writes "Here we go again: Just like the recently-reported PHP Floating Point Bug causes servers to go into infinite loops when parsing certain double-precision floating-point numbers, Sun/Oracle's JVM does it, too. It gets better: you can lock up a thread on most servers just by sending a particular header value. Sun/Oracle has known about the bug for something like 10 years, but it's still not fixed. Java Servlet containers are patching to avoid the problem, but application code will still be vulnerable to user input."
Bullshit! (Score:4, Funny)
Java is a secure virtual machine environment. Programs never crash and low level errors like pointer or memory problems are impossible. There is no way this floating point thing is real.
Java is the future and you are retarded. Java is the fastest programming language ever invented, that's why it's the primary language we learn and teach in school.
I have been a HTML programmer for many years, I know what I'm talking about.
Re:Bullshit! (Score:2, Funny)
That's why it's used to implement all video codecs!
Shocked! Shocked! (Score:5, Funny)
Why, I'd go so far as to predict that a company that behaved that way would find itself out of business.
Hey, wait a second...
Re:Bullshit! (Score:2, Funny)
>>> is no way this floating point thing is real.
Are you insinuating an int thing is real, if floating point thing is not real?
Do NOT try this (Score:4, Funny)
DO... NOT... TRY... THIS...
Don't say I haven't warned you!!!!!
Re:Bullshit! (Score:5, Funny)
It has to be real. Java lacks built-in support for complex numbers.
Re:Cool! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Bullshit! (Score:1, Funny)
That's why it's used to implement all video codecs!
No, video codecs are implemented in Flash because Java always makes those ugly coffee blotches on the videos.