In previous blog posts we have considered the damage, costs and underlying causes of memory unsafety. Having looked at conventional approaches to protecting .
In our first blog in this series, we looked at the high costs associated with memory safety failures. In the second post we saw that commonly used methods .
Many common vulnerabilities are related to software failing to respect the bounds of buffers. There are two main classes of buffer bound vulnerability .
In the previous blog post we looked at the ruinous costs of allowing unsafe memory access. However, there are generally existing protection mechanisms .
Most organizations are aware of cybercrime attempts such as phishing, installing malware from dodgy websites or ransomware attacks and undertake countermeasures. .