DirtyClone, tracked as CVE-2026-43503, is a Linux kernel vulnerability that allows any local user to gain root privileges.

A buffer overflow happens when a program writes more data into a memory buffer than the buffer can hold. The extra bytes land in adjacent memory, corrupting whatever was there. If an attacker controls ...

As these examples show, vulnerabilities can lurk within production code for years or decades—and attacks can come at any time. In 2021, a vulnerability was revealed in a system that lay at the ...

Protocol Buffers (a.k.a., protobuf) are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. You can learn more about it ...

Looking for help, advice, or support? Having problems getting YCM to work? First carefully read the installation instructions for your OS. We recommend you use the supplied install.py - the "full" ...

Secure coding refers to the practice of writing source code for software applications in a manner that actively prevents the introduction of security vulnerabilities. It is a proactive approach ...

For decades, the Linux kernel has been written almost entirely in C. It’s fast, powerful, and gives developers full control over the system. But in 2022, something historic happened: Rust was ...

Last month, I wrote about a pretty shaky topic in the software world - CISA and FBI's stance against C/C++ in their Product Security Bad Practices guidance. In that article, "CISA's Stand Against ...

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Analysts found that 52% of open-source projects are written in memory-unsafe languages like C and C++. More than half of open-source projects contain code written in a memory-unsafe language, a report ...