In a recent opinion piece, Linus Torvalds shares his views on C and C++. “I must be a glutton for punishment. Not only was my first programming language IBM 360 Assembler, but my second language was C. Programming anything in them wasn't easy. Programming safely in either is much harder.” So, when the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI announced they were doubling down on their efforts to persuade software manufacturers t
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The term “Looney Tunables” refers to a vulnerability that exists in the GNU C library, which is a core library in Linux-based systems. This library has a hand in many foundational operations like file opening and reading, threading, memory allocation, console printing, etc. The bug was introduced in April of 2021, but the CVE was not posted to NIST until October 3rd, 2023. The vulnerability was discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit in early September of this year.
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