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I wonder where you got those numbers from.
by Arch-TK 4y ago
I wonder where you got those numbers from.
- Vecr 4y agoA report about Windows written by Microsoft, I think.
- davidatbu 4y agoAlmost every study of security vulnerabilities concludes that roughly 70% of them are caused by memory unsafety.
- dcsommer 4y agohttps://alexgaynor.net/2019/aug/12/introduction-to-memory-unsafety-for-vps-of-engineering/#how-common-are-vulnerabilities-due-to-memory-unsafety https://alexgaynor.net/2019/aug/12/introduction-to-memory-un...
- mynameisash 4y agoFrom Microsoft[0]: "As we’ve seen, roughly 70% of the security issues that the MSRC assigns a CVE to are memory safety issues." And from Google[1]: "memory safety bugs continue to be a top contributor of stability issues, and consistently represent ~70% of Android’s high severity security vulnerabilities." [0] https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/why-rust-for-safe-systems-programming/ https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/why-rust-for-safe... [1] https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-platform.html https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-plat...