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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 20 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago
[-] elmicha@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

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

this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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