[reasonishy]

How many memory corruption / buffer overflow exploits have there been say in the JVM?

Using something like Java does cut out a whole class of memory exploits...

[rudolf0]

>How many memory corruption / buffer overflow exploits have there been say in the JVM?

There have actually been quite a lot. But they're generally not things that could be exploited in a typical Java network/web application. They're mostly an issue for sandbox escapes; e.g. Java applets in the browser.