Re:Chris Lattner on the Realm WWDC 2017 Swift Panel
by comex on Saturday July 01, 2017 @04:24AM
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> With Valgrind, I would say dangling pointers are a solved problem by now.
Given the frequency with which use-after-free vulnerabilities are discovered in C++ programs, I’d say they’re not a solved problem. Valgrind is great but it doesn’t help when the only inputs that cause bad behavior are bizarre attacker-generated ones.
Given the frequency with which use-after-free vulnerabilities are discovered in C++ programs, I’d say they’re not a solved problem. Valgrind is great but it doesn’t help when the only inputs that cause bad behavior are bizarre attacker-generated ones.