Re:Getting Past C
by pjmlp on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @07:50AM
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Safety has to do with memory corruption that lead to security exploits and unrecoverable data, not panics.
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Re:Getting Past C
by MaulingMonkey on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:18AM
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Panics can be a vector for denial-of-service attacks. OTOH that's still better than remote-code-execution, and unwinding panics can be caught. OTOH I see failing to do so across a FFI boundary is UB, which could get back into RCE territory through sufficiently convoluted shenanigans...