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title: '"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens'
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title: '[RETRACTED] "No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens'
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date: 2024-05-14
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series: "no-way-to-prevent-this"
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type: blog
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prompt: A forlorn business man resting his head on a brown wall next to a window.
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In the hours following the release of [CVE-2024-32004](https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-xfc6-vwr8-r389) for the project [Git](https://git-scm.com/), site reliability workers
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I fucked up, this isn't memory safety. Ignore this.
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~~In the hours following the release of [CVE-2024-32004](https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-xfc6-vwr8-r389) for the project [Git](https://git-scm.com/), site reliability workers
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and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a vulnerability that allows for cloning a maliciously crafted Git repository to execute arbitrary code as the user doing the clone. This is due to the affected components being
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written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen. "This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes
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these things just happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them," said programmer Mr. Odell Altenwerth, echoing statements
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occurred in the last 50 years, and whose projects are 20 times more likely to have security vulnerabilities. "It's a shame, but what can
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we do? There really isn't anything we can do to prevent memory safety vulnerabilities from happening if the programmer doesn't want to
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write their code in a robust manner." At press time, users of the only programming language in the world where these vulnerabilities
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regularly happen once or twice per quarter for the last eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as "helpless."
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regularly happen once or twice per quarter for the last eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as "helpless."~~