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"CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs"

A claimed "9.8 CRITICAL" flaw in #curl that does not exist.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-everything-that-is-wrong-with-cves/

CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs

This is a story consisting of several little building blocks and they occurred spread out in time and in different places. It is a story that shows with clarity how our current system with CVE Ids and lots of power given to NVD is a completely broken system. CVE-2020-19909 On August 25 2023, we got … Continue reading CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs →

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@bagder this is crazy (as is the NVD post you linked).

In theory, the compiler could change the integer overflow to code that deletes all files, instead of truncating, though, so it is a problem. Just not as crass as that, and most software is affected by that problem class because C is stupid.

Aug 26, 2023 at 12:33pmWeb