Thetechnical analysisfrom the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director focuses on stopping hackers from exploiting vulnerabilities in programming languages that are not memory safe. It says that manufacturers are best positioned to do so because the foundational e...
"NSA advises organizations to consider making a strategic shift from programming languages that provide little or no inherent memory protection, such as C/C++, to a memory safe language when possible. Some examples of memory safe languages are C#, Go, Java, Ruby, and Swift,...
Memory-safe languages are only just appearing in the world of embedded software, which is dominated by C and C++. For embedded systems, it is often moreefficientto look for hardware safety mechanisms such as fine-grained memory protection. Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI), fo...
What makes the Rust language one of the best for writing fast, memory-safe applications? Rust's memory-safety features are baked into the language itself. Credit: Ruslan Grumble/Shutterstock Over the past decade, Rust has emerged as a language of choice for people who want to write fast,...
Memory safety.Occlum is thefirstSGX LibOS written in a memory-safe programming language (Rust). Thus, Occlum is much less likely to contain low-level, memory-safety bugs and is more trustworthy to host security-critical applications. Ease-of-use.Occlum provides user-friendly build and command-...
Since SAS is written in C, will SAS Institute some day change from C to a memory safe programming language? For user interfaces, this has already happened (Enterprise Guide, which is built on .NET, will most probably be done with C#). For the core of the SAS system, where perfor...
The report stresses the ongoing necessity of employing memory-safe programming languages, secure coding practices, and rigorous security testing. Additionally, the report recommends that software manufacturers create memory-safe roadmaps, including plans to address memory safety in external dependencies, whic...
There are many projects that want to make C++ a "safer" programming language. But making changes to the language's syntax usually breaks backward compatibility with older code written earlier. This project contains a header only library and a compiler plugin for safe C++, which fixes the main ...
We give a rigorous characterization of what it means for a programming language to be memory safe, capturing the intuition that memory safety supports local reasoning about state. We formalize this principle in two ways. First, we show how a small memory-safe language validates a noninterference ...
Google, whichformally announcedits plans to support the Rust programming language in Android way back in April 2021, said it began prioritizing transitioning new development to memory-safe languages around 2019. As a result, the number of memory safety vulnerabilities discovered in the operating system...