• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    9 months ago

    In hindsight, shipping a heap overflow in code installed in over twenty billion instances is not an experience I would recommend.

    ouch

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I can’t even imagine that feeling.

      My internal lib was used in 1000 different places in my company and I had a panic attack when I found a minor error. But this is a new level of fear.

  • elmicha@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    TLDR: it only matters to you if you use curl/libcurl to contact an untrustworthy host via SOCKS5 proxy.