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Memory leaks aren’t safety issues
by dagmx 4y ago
Memory leaks aren’t safety issues
- tonto 4y agodenial of service can exploit some memory leaks i imagine
- Hemospectrum 4y agoMemory leaks are bad, but they can't break type safety. Buffer overflows and use-after-free are categorically more dangerous.
- dagmx 4y agoIn that scenario a memory leak isn’t any more unsafe than any other program data that’s in memory.