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minus-squareshadowintheday2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months ago"A qsort vulnerability is due to a missing bounds check and can lead to memory corruption. It has been present in all versions of glibc since 1992. " This one amazes me. Imagine how many vulnerabilities future researchers will discover in ancient software that persisted/persist for decades.
"A qsort vulnerability is due to a missing bounds check and can lead to memory corruption. It has been present in all versions of glibc since 1992. "
This one amazes me. Imagine how many vulnerabilities future researchers will discover in ancient software that persisted/persist for decades.