All languages are unsafe. We find bugs of “safe” languages sometimes 30 years after the exploit was introduced. Just because we don’t know doesn’t make them safe.
Indeed, however given that 70% of exploits are caused by memory corruption bugs, like in this case, the IT world would be much safer if we only had to deal with the remaing 30%.
While that's true, the likelihood of a bug like this existing in an application written in a language like python, go, or rust (heck, even C++) is orders of magnitude less than the likelihood of it being in software written in C.
Why does Python have a safe reputation around here? Everything is constantly rewritten by corporate sponsored developers and it is usually easy to find invalid accesses.
Personally, I dislike python. However, it's indisputably safer than C.
All languages are unsafe the same way all diseases are fatal.
I think it still makes a difference if languages are created with safety in mind.
It certainly does help but as the parent says it’s not a silver bullet.
The lazy unhelpful comment above adds very little to the discussion when the software in question is (in some cases decades) older than those languages.
Sometimes kids get badly injured climbing on a tiny playground structure, but we don't say "All climbing is unsafe" and stick toddlers halfway up El Capitan.