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The only language where this happens?

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2023-53161

https://www.sentinelone.com/vulnerability-database/cve-2026-...

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-71560

https://www.invicti.com/web-application-vulnerabilities/pyth...

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With the exception of the C++ case, these all seem to result in DDOS which, while bad, are barely security issues. It speaks to the difference between C and these other languages (Go, Python, Rust).

A crash is always better than OOB memory reads. All of these are crashes except the C++ one. The rust one is from 3 years ago and listed twice.

This article is about the frequency of these bugs, not their existence. C and C++ are the only languages where this happens regularly

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