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Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities Once and For All

Memory safety vulnerabilities are the most prevalent type of disclosed software vulnerability1 and affect a computer's memory in two primary ways. First, programming languages like C allow programmers to manipulate memory directly, making it easy to accidentally introduce errors in their program that would enable a seemingly routine operation to corrupt the state of memory. Second, memory safety issues can arise when a programming language exhibits an “undefined behavior.” Undefined behaviors ha...

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