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by lanstin 1717 days ago
I left the company and then about ten years later it was turned off. It was in C but was pretty mature framework, not C style strings. And the code was just “validate assumption for parsing, else return error” then “parse the next few bytes else return error”. Very simple small number of parameters, explicit length limits everywhere. And it was a public AOL end point so widely and continually attacked by people. I was there for maybe 7 years after deploying it and nothing (known) happened in that time.