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"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens - 07/01/2024 (xeiaso.net)
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A shitpost about languages that generate CVEs

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[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The trope will be "old" once the mainstream view is no longer that C-style memory management is "good enough".

That said, this particular vulnerability was primarily due to how signals work, which I understand to be kind of unavoidably terrible in any language.

[–] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A better language wouldn't have any need to use POSIX signals in this way.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago

I'm not totally clear on why signals are used here in the first place. Arguably most C code doesn't "need" to use signals in complex ways, either.