Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Quite a spectacular security bug Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:28:06 +0000 Organization: Rocksolid Light Message-ID: <55f5746c25317c9296bfcdb50c19bda0@www.novabbs.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2497621"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="65wTazMNTleAJDh/pRqmKE7ADni/0wesT78+pyiDW8A"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$pxWX.Gco0jlcF15KZ6SMXOqvoBv9zbqVxEqRVfvLlyKDR7Ssdgw86 X-Rslight-Posting-User: ac58ceb75ea22753186dae54d967fed894c3dce8 Bytes: 1585 Lines: 18 On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:21:00 +0000, John Dallman wrote: > In article , > mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:40:00 +0000, John Dallman wrote: >>> A company that doesn't find that kind of flaw is thoroughly >>> capable of missing a memory management problem. >> Missing something as easy as that makes one wonder about how much >> other stuff testing missed ?? > > Exactly. Thinking something is too simple to need testing is a > fundamental error. We generally budgeted:: engineering$$ == verification$$ > > John