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Google Migrating Android to Memory-Safe Programming Languages

Issued by: Security Week

Between 2019 and 2022, the annual number of reported memory safety issues in Android has dropped from 223 to 85, due to an increase in the amount of memory-safe code entering the mobile platform, and the trend is expected to continue. Memory safety bugs, Google notes, are typically the most severe type of vulnerabilities. In…

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NSA Publishes Guidance on Mitigating Software Memory Safety Issues

Issued by: Security Week

Caused by how programs manage or allocate memory, logic errors, incorrect order of operations, or the use of uninitialized variables, software memory safety issues are often exploited for remote code execution (RCE). Representing the most common cause of vulnerabilities in many cases (Microsoft and Google blame memory safety issues for 70% of their bugs), memory…