On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 3:04 PM Robbie Harwood <rharw...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> writes:
>
> > ...and yet despite being so easy to review it somehow had a major
> > security vulnerability ever since it was written.
>
> This is not a good metric.  easy to review != was sufficiently reviewed,
> and getting sufficient code review might be the hardest problem in
> software engineering.
>
> Additionally, if a project has never had an issue, it's just as likely
> that no one has ever really looked at it than that it's "safer".
>

Actually, someone had conceived that it might be a problem in 2013:
https://ryiron.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/argv-silliness/



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