Vulnerabilities in C code (IMAGE)

Princeton University, Engineering School

Vulnerabilities in C code

Caption

Much of the code ever written is in the C programming language, but C has a major security vulnerability that can result in serious bugs, like the one pictured here. Now, Princeton computer scientists have created a tool that helps protect systems written in safer languages during interactions with C code.

Credit

Photo of code snippet from OpenSSL, an open source library

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