9 Low-Level Coding Flaws
Low-level programming is good for the programmer’s soul.
—John Carmack
The next few chapters will survey a multitude of coding pitfalls programmers need to be aware of for security reasons, starting with the classics. This chapter covers basic flaws that are common to code that works closer to the machine level. The issues discussed here arise when data exceeds the capacity of either fixed-size numbers or allocated memory buffers. Modern languages tend to provide higher-level abstractions that insulate code from these perils, but programmers working in these safer languages will still benefit from understanding ...
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