by Robert C. Seacord The cutoff for new feature proposals for the next C Language Standard (C23) has come and gone meaning that we know some of the things that will be in the next standard and all of the things that will not be. There are still a bunch of papers that have been … Continue reading The Next C Language Standard (C23)
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C Language Standards Update – Zero-size Reallocations are Undefined Behavior
[Editor's Note: Robert Seacord of NCC Group is a longstanding member of the C Standards Committee. In this blog post, he outlines a recently adopted change he proposed to the C Language Standard, to help eliminate double-free vulnerabilities being introduced to C code as a result of zero-sized reallocations of memory.] by Robert Seacord The … Continue reading C Language Standards Update – Zero-size Reallocations are Undefined Behavior
Improving Software Security through C Language Standards
This blog post describes my history with the C Standards Committee, the work standards organizations are currently doing in software security, and the future of NCC Group's work in improving software security by working with the C Standards Committee and other standardzation efforts. Past I became involved with the C Standards Committee (more formally, ISO/IEC … Continue reading Improving Software Security through C Language Standards