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by dcsommer 1254 days ago
Do you have data on the relative frequency and severity of non-memory safety integer overflow security issues?
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Here are over 3k CVEs that contain "integer overflow". That shouldn't be considered a comprehensive search.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=integer+ove...

You don't need to have to have historical stats to show that it can be a security issue.
I know at least about the DAO hack.