alt Hacker News> even C code born long ago, if it's still in wide use, has been hardened by now. Examples: Linux kernel
There have been two LPE vulnerability and exploits in the Linux kernel announced today. After the one announced just last week. I don't think as much of the C code born long ago has been as carefully hardened as you think.
(Copy Fail 2 and Dirty Frag today, and Copy Fail last week)
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akoboldfrying • today at 8:03 AM
Sure, I didn't mean to say that these examples are guaranteed 100% safe -- just that I trust them to be enormously more safe than software that accomplishes the same task that was hand-written by either a human or an an LLM last week.
One. "Copy Fail 2" and "Dirty Frag" are the same thing.