Re:Buffer overflow when pwfeedback is set in sudoers
by roca on Monday February 03, 2020 @04:39AM
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> It's really just arithmetic.
Understanding these concepts is not the problem. The problem is that even people who understand them very well regularly make mistakes when programming with them, and in C these mistakes have disastrous consequences.
> There's already a few comments about how "safer" languages don't really solve anything. They just push the problems up higher in the stack of abstractions...
The problems that exist higher in the stack of abstractions are present in C programs too. C just creates a lot of additional ways to subvert your program.
Understanding these concepts is not the problem. The problem is that even people who understand them very well regularly make mistakes when programming with them, and in C these mistakes have disastrous consequences.
> There's already a few comments about how "safer" languages don't really solve anything. They just push the problems up higher in the stack of abstractions...
The problems that exist higher in the stack of abstractions are present in C programs too. C just creates a lot of additional ways to subvert your program.