> A buffer overflow vulnerability in the Brotli decoder (c/dec/decode.c)
It sure sounds like lately it's not a great time to be a C lover with a deep hatred on Rust...
And as a sidenote such exploits based on bugs in decoders is one of the main reason projects don't want to add support for every format under the sun (for example potential exploits has been invoked as a reason to not adopt jpeg-xl in a timely manner).
But yeah: maybe, just maybe, that C afficionados could concede that a language making buffer overflows impossible is actually a good thing? Instead of resorting to logical fallacies which are basically: "There are exploits for any single language out there, hence every language is equally likely to have buffer overflows".
It sure sounds like lately it's not a great time to be a C lover with a deep hatred on Rust...
And as a sidenote such exploits based on bugs in decoders is one of the main reason projects don't want to add support for every format under the sun (for example potential exploits has been invoked as a reason to not adopt jpeg-xl in a timely manner).
But yeah: maybe, just maybe, that C afficionados could concede that a language making buffer overflows impossible is actually a good thing? Instead of resorting to logical fallacies which are basically: "There are exploits for any single language out there, hence every language is equally likely to have buffer overflows".