[ElectricRook]

If the flaw is a buffer overflow, then that is most likely a compiler issue, and will affect any software, even windows.

[Bush2000]

If the flaw is a buffer overflow, then that is most likely a compiler issue, and will affect any software, even windows.

No. Buffer overflows are generally overt programmer errors, where somebody has allocated a stack buffer which is insufficient to accomodate a sequence of data.