Memory unsafe languages are still widely used in a lot of critical software such as operating system kernels and browsers, and thus, memory corruption attacks remain a significant threat. To mitigate the threat,
“Most critical open-source projects analyzed, even those written in memory-safe languages, potentially contain memory safety vulnerabilities. This can be caused by direct use of memory-unsafe languages or external dependency on projects that use memory-unsafe languages,” the report stated. “Addition...
These errors are widely hidden in important software systems written in memory unsafe programming languages such as C/C++. Li et al. Cybersecurity (2019) 2:17 Page 3 of 18 Figure 1 shows an example of write across boundary, a common memory access error. When the function fun copies buf ...
If you have a very large (millions of lines of code) codebase, written in a memory-unsafe programming language (such as C or C++), you can expect at least 65% of your security vulnerabilities to be caused by memory unsafety. He based this claim on data on operating systems including ...
Eventually, this leads to a drop in memory safety vulnerabilities as new memory unsafe development slows down after a certain period of time, and new memory safe development takes over, Google's Jeff Vander Stoep and Alex Rebertsaidin a post shared with The Hacker News. ...
and Mac. Because nearly all popular user devices today rely on code written in programming languages like C and C++ that are considered “memory-unsafe,” meaning that they don’t provide strong guarantees which prevent certain classes of software bugs, improving memory safety is an important obje...
For more information about secure rewind and discard for Rust foreign function interfaces, read our research paper:Friend or Foe Inside? Exploring In-Process Isolation to Maintain Memory Safety for Unsafe Rust Published as: M. Gülmez, T. Nyman, C. Baumann and J. T. Mühlberg, "Friend or ...
Memory-safe languages have been around for a long time. But up until recently, they weren’t performant or scalable enough for low-level programming at the kernel or firmware level. And so a whole class of developers continued to use memory unsafe languages. ...
Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, found that that more than half of the analyzed critical open-source projects contain code written in memory-unsafe languages. That’s software that includes programming languages requiring manual...
I’ve found the cost of such tools is usually much lower than the cost of having an issue. Static tools can often trace memory accesses and variable scope and identify if there are any unsafe memory accesses. The problem with static analysis tools is that they are notorious for identifying ...