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Memory safety is the state of being protected from various software bugs and security vulnerabilities when dealing with memory access, such as buffer overflows and dangling pointers. For example, Java is said to be memory-safe because its runtime error detection checks array bounds and … See more
Memory errors were first considered in the context of resource management and time-sharing systems, in an effort to avoid problems such as fork bombs. Developments were mostly theoretical until the See more
Most modern, high-level programming languages are memory-safe by default. Automatic memory management in the form of garbage collection is the most common technique for … See more
In 2019, a Microsoft security engineer reported that 70 percent of all security vulnerabilities were caused by memory safety issues. In 2020, a team at Google similarly reported that 70 percent of all "severe security bugs" in Google Chromium were … See more
Many different types of memory errors can occur:
• Access errors: invalid read/write of a pointer
• Uninitialized variables – a variable that has not been … See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license Memory safety - HandWiki
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