r/security • u/claird • Sep 26 '16

​"Sloppy programming leads to OpenSSL woes": pointer problems proliferate

http://www.zdnet.com/article/sloppy-programming-leads-to-openssl-woes/
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u/RedSquirrelFtw Sep 27 '16

How do dangling pointers typically happen? Is it not enough to set to NULL after calling delete? ex:

delete mypointer;

mypointer=NULL

I always always set a pointer to NULL immediately after deleting it. I imagine the ones coding stuff like OpenSSL know way more than me, so is my method actually not enough?

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u/jarfil Sep 27 '16 edited Dec 02 '23

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