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rwallace
on June 20, 2012
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The Little C Function From Hell
Can you give some examples of why you think this is more prone to security vulnerabilities than using signed types?
lawnchair_larry
on June 21, 2012
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http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2002-142...
rwallace
on June 22, 2012
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Ah, thanks. From reading the summary, it seems that case would have been prevented by using signed integers throughout, but would also have been prevented by using unsigned integers throughout?
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