The list isn't arbitrary. Bugs that let you read and write different memory than you meant to are some of the easiest to exploit. If you look back at the type o

The list isn't arbitrary. Bugs that let you read and write different memory than you meant to are some of the easiest to exploit. If you look back at the type of bugs that make headlines, they're pretty much all memory safety issues or code injection (and the memory issues show up more often).