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"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens - 07/01/2024 (xeiaso.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A shitpost about languages that generate CVEs

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (8 children)

The "C is bad trope" is getting way too old. I'm surprised the author didn't plug Rust.

the only programming language in the world where these vulnerabilities regularly happen

Maybe because it's one of the most widely used languages in the world...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

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