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by comex 3278 days ago
> With Valgrind, I would say dangling pointers are a solved problem by now.

Given the frequency with which use-after-free vulnerabilities are discovered in C++ programs, I’d say they’re not a solved problem. Valgrind is great but it doesn’t help when the only inputs that cause bad behavior are bizarre attacker-generated ones.