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Security Issues with STL?

Subject: Security Issues with STL?
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:29:13 -0400
Hi,

I have found scattered information about security issues related to
STL on the internet and am not sure if Standards Template Library
should be used or not used from security point of view.

If it should be used what are the issues one should be aware of ? 

So far I have found 3 different references to STL (a couple of them
from Writing secure code 2) and one form MS website.

1) Standard Template Library stream operator (>>) copies data from an
input source to a variable. If the input is untrusted, this could
potentially lead to a buffer overrun. (WSC2)
2) Using the STL can throw exceptions under low-memory conditions or
if you encounter errors (WSC2).
3) Buffer overrun using iterators (MS website -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncode/html/secure03102004.asp).

Are there any more known issues with STL ?

Thanks

DK.

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