"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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[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 13 points 5 months ago

Also, I like how this problem had a really simple solution all along

There really isn't anything we can do to prevent memory safety vulnerabilities from happening if the programmer doesn't want to write their code in a robust manner.

Yeah, totally, it's all those faulty programmers fault. They should've written good programmes instead of the bad ones, but they just refuse to listen

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Right, those devs with 20+ years C experience don't know shit about the language and are just lazy. They don't want to catch up with the times and write safe C. It's me, the dude with 5 years of university experience who will set it straight. Look at my hello world program, not a single line of vulnerable code.

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[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

This is not completely wrong, though

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, for sure. Human error is involved in C and inertia too. New coding practices and libraries aren't used, tests aren't written, code quality sucks (variable names in C are notoriously cryptic), there's little documentation, many things are rewritten (seems like everybody has rewritten memory allocation at least once), one's casual void * is another's absolute nono, and so on.

C just makes it really easy to make mistakes.

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[-] Corbin@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

It has nothing to do with knowing the language and everything to do with what's outside of the language. C hasn't resembled CPUs for decades and can't be reasonably retrofitted for safety.