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Feds want devs to stop coding 'unforgivable' buffer overflow vulnerabilities

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STIX ID: report--768f16a8-3c42-5723-b010-ba8257ca1754

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
30/100

Date Published: 2025-02-13

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Jessica Lyons

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In a joint advisory, the FBI and CISA labeled buffer overflow and other memory-safety flaws as "unforgivable" and urged developers and manufacturers to adopt memory-safe languages (e.g., Rust, Go, Swift), implement phased transitions for legacy code, and use compiler flags, AddressSanitizer/MemorySanitizer, fuzzing, static analysis, and adversarial testing to reduce exploitability.

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