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A shitpost about languages that generate CVEs

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is an overstatement, definitely. C is one of the few (mainstream) languages where memory safety vulnerabilities are even possible. So if you batch C and C++ together, they probably cover more than 90% of all the memory unsafe cove written in last 50 years, which is a strong implication that they will contribute to 90% of memory vulnerabilities.

All that said, memory vulnerabilities are about 65% of all high implact vulnerabilities on Chromium project^1 and about 70% of vulnerabilities at Microsoft ^2.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

So we'd only fix 70% of vulnerabilities by switching to rust? Not enough! Better keep writing C/C++!

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