Retrofitting spatial safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++

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div>Posted by Alex Rebert and Max Shavrick, Security Foundations, and Kinuko Yasuda, Core Developer

Attackers regularly exploit spatial memory safety vulnerabilities, which occur when code accesses a memory allocation outside of its intended bounds, to compromise systems and sensitive data. These vulnerabilities represent a major security risk to users. 

Based on an analysis of in-the-wild exploits tracked by Google’s Project Zero, spatial safety vulnerabilities represent 40% of in-the-wild memory safety exploits over the past decade:

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