Memory safety vulnerabilities are those that take advantage of memory-related bugs, such as buffer overflows, format string issues, or dangling pointers, to interact with or even write over the memory ...

A new joint guidance released by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at partners is warning of the widespread and costly prevalence of memory safety vulnerabilities in critical ...

The number of memory-related vulnerabilities in Android has dropped sharply over the past five years, thanks to Google's use of a secure-by-design approach that emphasizes the use of memory-safe ...

The White House says memory safety bugs are “one of the most pervasive classes of vulnerabilities.” But, coding with memory safe languages “can eliminate most memory safety errors.” That means the ...

The percentage of Android vulnerabilities caused by memory safety issues has dropped from 76% in 2019 to only 24% in 2024, representing a massive decrease of over 68% in five years. This is well below ...

Forward-looking: Google adds its voice to the growing consensus for an industry-wide progress towards secure programming practices. There is a standardization opportunity for every player involved in ...

New guidance for software developers from Five Eyes countries implores software developers to patch memory safety vulnerabilities and rethink the use of risky programming languages. A cadre of ...

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged tech companies today to switch to memory-safe programming languages, such as Rust, to improve software security by reducing the ...