Re: Canal+ crash

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:36:08 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> Le 21/07/2024 à 23:53, Lawrence D'Oliveiro a écrit :
>> On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 11:10:06 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>> 
>>> Le 21/07/2024 à 10:00, Niklas Holsti a écrit :
>>>
>>>> But certainly, most attacks on SW have used functional bugs such as
>>>> buffer overflows.
>>>
>>> A problem that has been solved since 1983, and even before (Pascal had
>>> bounds checking). Sigh...
>> 
>> Pascal had no checking for memory leaks or double-frees.
>> 
>> Rust certainly seems to be a next-generation solution to these sorts of
>> memory problems.
> 
> We were talking about bounds checking, that Pascal had.

Which is only one potential pitfall for bugs with security implications.