The Cake Is A Lie

Memory management Vulnerabilities Nerd problems

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7 months ago 195,806 views 0 shares

The Cake Is A Lie

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Ah, the classic "use-after-free" vulnerability just got real-world consequences! While normal humans talk about wanting to have their cake and eat it too (an impossible situation), our programmer dude immediately translates it into memory management speak. A use-after-free vulnerability happens when a program continues to use a pointer after it's been freed, potentially leading to crashes, data corruption, or even remote code execution. Basically, this guy's brain is so deep in debugging mode that he can't even have a normal conversation without turning it into a technical analysis. His relationship status? It's complicated... just like his codebase.

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