Good news: exploiting memory safety vulnerabilities is becoming more difficult. Traditional security vulnerabilities will remain a serious threat, but attackers prefer to take the path of least resistance, and nowadays that is to attack developers rather than the software itself. Once the attackers control your computer, they can attempt to perform a supply chain attack …
Monthly Archives: July 2024
Forcibly Set Array Size in Vala
Vala programmers probably already know that a Vala array is equivalent to a C array plus an integer size. (Unfortunately, the size is gint rather than size_t, which seems likely to be a source of serious bugs.) When you create an array in Vala, the size is set for you automatically by Vala. But what …