Double-freeing a memory block, which can crash the memory manager and eventually the program or even the whole system. Other common C/C++ vulnerabilities include buffer overruns and string ...

Rowe presented TrapC at an ISO C meeting this week. Developers can download a TrapC whitepaper and offer Rowe feedback. According to the whitepaper, TrapC’s memory management is automatic and ...

Memory management is the process by which a computer system allocates a limited amount of physical memory among the various processes that need it - such as operating system or application calls ...

Choosing a particular GC algorithm usually is not a programmer's task, as the memory management system is imposed by the adopted programming language. An exception to this rule is the ...

With automatic memory management and memory-safe pointers, the open source compiler TrapC is designed to make code written in C and C++ safer.

The author, Robin Rowe, freely admits to this extension being ‘C++ like’, which takes us right back to 1979 when a then young Danish computer scientist (Bjarne Stroustrup) created a C-language ...

Rust is blazingly fast and memory-efficient: with no runtime or garbage collector, it can power performance-critical services, run on embedded devices, and easily integrate with other languages.

UAF access in heap allocated memory is caused by "dangling pointers", which occurs when memory used by an application is returned to the underlying system but the pointer points to an out-of-date ...

Roughly 70% of all serious security bugs in the Chrome codebase are memory management and safety bugs, Google engineers said this week. Half of the 70% are use-after-free vulnerabilities, a type ...

Rust’s ownership system prevents entire types of memory bugs at compile time. The borrow checker avoids use-after-free, double-free, and data races before code reaches production, eliminating bugs ...