[synergy20]

for 1 scan all the code base and warn any use of strcpy/strncpy/etc and replace them with snprintf, no APIs without length argument shall be allowed.

for 4 the static analyzer should help, and, also set your pointer to NULL immediately after free too(for double free)

[UncleMeat]

Static detection of UAF is grossly incapable of actually protecting real C++ applications. It can find some bugs, sure. But a sound analysis is going to just throw red all over a codebase and get people to disable it immediately.

Changing everything to take lengths is definitely a good change - but challenging to retrofit into existing codebases. Apple has a neat idea for automatically passing lengths along via compilation changes rather than source changes, but if you want to do things in source you have to deal with the fact that there is some function somewhere that takes a void*, increments it locally, reinterpret_casts it to some type, and then accesses one of its fields and you've got a fucking mess of a refactor on your hands.