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Performance of Compiler-Assisted Memory Safety Checking
According to a 2013 report examining 25 years of vulnerabilities (from 1998 to 2012), buffer overflow causes 14 percent of software security vulnerabilities and 35 percent of critical vulnerabilities, making …
• By David Keaton
In Secure Development
Helping Developers Address Security with the CERT C Secure Coding Standard
By analyzing vulnerability reports for the C, C++, Perl, and Java programming languages, the CERT Secure Coding Team observed that a relatively small number of programming errors leads to most …
• By David Keaton
In Secure Development
Improving Security in the Latest C Programming Language Standard
Buffer overflows--an all too common problem that occurs when a program tries to store more data in a buffer, or temporary storage area, than it was intended to hold--can cause …
• By David Keaton
In Secure Development
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