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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.
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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.
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