memory-safety
Safeguard articles tagged "memory-safety" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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CVE-2026-8037: When the Function That Escapes Your Input Is the Bug
Progress Kemp LoadMaster's flaw lives inside escape_quotes(), the routine meant to neutralise dangerous input. It fails to null-terminate, turning a sanitiser into unauthenticated command injection.
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities explained
Buffer overflows still make MITRE's CWE Top 25 every year. Here's how they corrupt memory, real CVEs like EternalBlue and Baron Samedit, and how to stop them.
Use-after-free vulnerabilities explained
Use-after-free bugs (CWE-416) power some of the worst zero-day exploit chains in browsers and kernels. Here's how they work and what stops them.
Integer overflow vulnerabilities explained
What integer overflow vulnerabilities are, how CWE-190 causes real breaches like Bitcoin's 2010 overflow bug, and how to detect and prevent them.
Type confusion vulnerabilities explained
Type confusion bugs let attackers corrupt memory by exploiting mismatched type assumptions. See real CVEs, how JIT engines fail, and how to catch it early.
What STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN (0xC0000409) Really Means
The misleadingly named STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN rarely means an active attack — it means a program chose to kill itself the instant it stopped trusting its own memory.
Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerabilities (CWE-125) Explained
How out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities (CWE-125) leak memory instead of crashing programs, why Heartbleed and Cloudbleed happened, and how to catch them in your dependencies.
Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerabilities (CWE-787) Explained
CWE-787 out-of-bounds write bugs let attackers corrupt memory past a buffer's limit, causing crashes or code execution. Here's how they work.
Improper Restriction of Operations Within Memory Bounds
CWE-119 has topped MITRE's vulnerability rankings for years, from Heartbleed to WannaCry to the 2023 libwebp zero-day. Here's why it persists and how to catch it early.
Unsafe Rust code vulnerability patterns
RustSec advisories tied to unsafe code keep climbing. Here's how unsound FFI, transmute misuse, and unchecked indexing become real exploits.
Double-Free Vulnerabilities in C and C++
Double-free bugs let attackers corrupt heap memory and hijack control flow. Here's how they happen in C/C++, real CVEs, and how to catch them early.
Memory safety in C/C++: the vulnerability classes that won't go away
Microsoft found ~70% of its patched CVEs trace to memory-safety bugs. Here's how buffer overflows, use-after-free, and double-free still happen — and what actually catches them.
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