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Google sees 68% drop in Android memory safety flaws over 5 years
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- MrAlex94 2y agoSurely the scudo[1] memory allocator, which was implemented in Android 11 has helped here as well? [1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/06/system-hardening-in-android-11.html https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/06/system-har...
- tgeery 2y agothis article is a bit tough... feels like a marketing piece for some Google report. did I read that wrong or was this whole analysis based on percentages... like what does 76% -> 24% drop in memory related bugs mean in terms of nominal bugs or nominal bugs / kloc also, it mostly credited memory safe languages but then also just threw this out from the Google report > Based on what we've learned, it's become clear that we do not need to throw away or rewrite all our existing memory-unsafe code tl;dr android may be producing less memory-related vulnerabilities and it's not exactly clear how