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How I made a heap overflow in curl | daniel.haxx.se
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In hindsight, shipping a heap overflow in code installed in over twenty billion instances is not an experience I would recommend.ouch
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.