Top "Memory-safety" questions

Memory safety is a concern in software development that aims to avoid software bugs that cause security vulnerabilities dealing with random-access memory (RAM) access, such as buffer overflows and dangling pointers.

Buffer overflow works in gdb but not without it

I am on CentOS 6.4 32 bit and am trying to cause a buffer overflow in a program. Within GDB it works. …

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Is Python type safe?

According to Wikipedia Computer scientists consider a language "type-safe" if it does not allow operations or conversions that violate the …

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What does it take to write memory safe C++ applications?

Is it possible to either create a coding standard or use of a library that can be proved to eliminate …

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