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How to Secure Existing C and C++ Software without Memory Safety (arxiv.org)
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The most important security benefit of software memory safety is easy to state: for C and C++ software, attackers can exploit most bugs and vulnerabilities to gain full, unfettered control of software behavior, whereas this is not true for most bugs in memory-safe software—just a few

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