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Re:Official Go support by methodology on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @04:55PM (#8358176)
> There are no buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Go applications

Actually there are in certain cases [1], but there's a good reason for that.

1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25628920/slicing-operatio...

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Re:Official Go support by ominous_prime on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @05:27PM (#8358385)
But that's not a buffer overflow. You can't access uninitialized memory (well, without unsafe anyway).
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Re:Official Go support by jesstaa on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @03:36AM (#8360306)
Without unsafe or a race condition. http://research.swtch.com/gorace
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