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Firm finds new danger in dangling pointers
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-07-25

In December 2005, technology consultant Inge Henriksen announced he had found a flaw in Microsoft's flagship Web server platform, Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.1. Yet, because the vulnerability appeared impossible to exploit, Microsoft put off patching the issue.

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Firm finds new danger in dangling pointers 2007-07-27
Anonymous
This is intriguing. Moving to garbage-collected languages is not feasible or even desirable for everyone, and software will continue to be written in C++, C, etc., for years to come. Some straightforward things being done in educational settings to try to understand the reasons we continue to enco...

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