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C++ Blog: The Unsecured Integer
C++
void main(void)

Calls, Returns and In-Between.

by Kevin Carlson
SELECTIVE IGNORANCE

Finding the Signal in the Noise

by Andrew Koenig
November 07, 2006

The Unsecured Integer

A few weeks ago, Pete Becker showed us some ways to avoid buffer-overflow vulnerabilites when using string-manipulation functions. Robert Seacord warns us that integers are an underestimated vulnerability, partly for the same buffer-overflow reasons, but partly for much more unexpected reasons.

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