Just ran across this post and your comment by chance, but well, yes:
The importance of memory safety cannot be overstated: a 2019 study
estimated that 66% of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) for iOS 12 and
71% of CVEs for Mojave were caused by memory safety issues. [...] a Google Project Zero review of
exploits detected in-the-wild estimates that 75% of CVEs used in those exploits were
memory safety vulnerabilities. Out of the 58 in-the-wild zero-days discovered in
2021, 67% were memory safety vulnerabilities.
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pineapple@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Are memory errors in C and C++ the reason for the majority of modern security vulnerabilities?
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 326d
Just ran across this post and your comment by chance, but well, yes:
Source: https://media.defense.gov/2025/Jun/23/2003742198/-1/-1/0/CSI_MEMORY_SAFE_LANGUAGES_REDUCING_VULNERABILITIES_IN_MODERN_SOFTWARE_DEVELOPMENT.PDF