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by IshKebab 440 days ago
Good question. If I had to bet I'd say something like half of the 70% would be prevented. Yeah it wouldn't really help with lifetime issues or type confusion but a huge proportion of that 70% is simple out-of-bounds memory accesses.

But don't forget lots of open source code is written in C and this barely helps there.

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> something like half of the 70% would be prevented

Sure, but the other half are use-after-frees and those would not be exploitable anyway because of CFI and shadow stacks.

That is a very bold claim!