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WalterBright on Feb 9, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: 21st Century C++

The top memory safety bugs in shipped code for C and C++ are out of bounds array indexing.

saagarjha on Feb 9, 2025 [–]

Are you sure? I generally see more use-after-free and other lifetime issues.

WalterBright on Feb 10, 2025 | [–]

Every survey I've seen corroborated it.

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