CVE-2023-6246: Heap-based buffer overflow in the glibc's syslog()

We regret to inform you your children were killed by an AI using a memory unsafe language"

"A consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980 language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."

-- C.A.R Hoare's "The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture"

Thankfully the powers of the law are finally taking attention to it, after a couple of decades since that speech took place.

The good news: the day will come when this kind of software vulnerability will only exist in legacy software.

The bad news: we’ll still be using legacy software at that time.