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oh bugs in the parsing libraries are the things MOSTLY used for attacks like this. Parsing is hard, and parsers are buggy and lead to all kind of unsafe C code
by shp0ngle 6y ago
oh bugs in the parsing libraries are the things MOSTLY used for attacks like this.
Parsing is hard, and parsers are buggy and lead to all kind of unsafe C code
- voxic11 6y agoExactly, parsers are complicated, generally involve a lot of manipulation of memory buffers, and for performance reasons are usually written in a language without memory safety (though this is starting to change with languages like https://github.com/p-org/P https://github.com/p-org/P and rust).