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If this was known in 2013 why wasn't it fixed? This is literally a simple error in parsing program arguments.

• dc-programmer 5y ago
  This is the dark side of risk based security which often manifests. The code gets audited over a day or two and items get ranked by severity. The “minor” bugs are fixed much later if never and it’s ok because they are low severity. But if you pull on the threads of minor issues there are usually deeper issues at play. Further bugs might be minor if considered independently, but can be chained together to perform severe exploits. Given the resources, I think the best approach is to just aggressively eliminate all known undefined behavior in a application