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Re:Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution by saagarjha on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:43AM (#23448161)
> Are all the vulnerabilities and issues with Zoom because of its popularity?

Partly, but they also actively go out of their way to disable security mitigations for reasons that are unclear so I’m not all that surprised. On Linux I think they were one simple buffer overflow away from arbitrary code execution, which is all but asking for an attack if you parse data from the network in an unsafe language.

Re:Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution by tomsmeding on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:52PM (#23449161)
To be fair, if you're parsing data from the network in an unsafe language, you are always a simple buffer overflow away from arbitrary code execution. So your point is: don't use an unsafe language.
Re:Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution by saagarjha on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:55PM (#23449177)
There's a number of mitigations for simple buffer overflows, such as stack canaries.