Comment on "No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happensComments−robmccoll15dThe only language where this happens?https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2023-53161https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2023-53161https://www.sentinelone.com/vulnerability-database/cve-2026-...https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-71560https://www.invicti.com/web-application-vulnerabilities/pyth...−K0nserv15dWith the exception of the C++ case, these all seem to result in DDOS which, while bad, are barely security issues. It speaks to the difference between C and these other languages (Go, Python, Rust).−hn9272681915dA crash is always better than OOB memory reads. All of these are crashes except the C++ one. The rust one is from 3 years ago and listed twice.This article is about the frequency of these bugs, not their existence. C and C++ are the only languages where this happens regularly
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The only language where this happens?
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2023-53161
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2023-53161
https://www.sentinelone.com/vulnerability-database/cve-2026-...
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-71560
https://www.invicti.com/web-application-vulnerabilities/pyth...
With the exception of the C++ case, these all seem to result in DDOS which, while bad, are barely security issues. It speaks to the difference between C and these other languages (Go, Python, Rust).
A crash is always better than OOB memory reads. All of these are crashes except the C++ one. The rust one is from 3 years ago and listed twice.
This article is about the frequency of these bugs, not their existence. C and C++ are the only languages where this happens regularly