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Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages

posted by takyon on Tuesday December 12 2017, @03:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the fuzzy-illogic dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Research presented this week at the Black Hat Europe 2017 security conference has revealed that several popular interpreted programming languages are affected by severe vulnerabilities that expose apps built on these languages to attacks.

The author of this research is IOActive Senior Security Consultant Fernando Arnaboldi. The expert says he used an automated software testing technique named fuzzing to identify vulnerabilities in the interpreters of five of today's most popular programming languages: JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby.

[...] The researcher released XDiFF as an open source project on GitHub. A more detailed presentation of the testing procedure and all the vulnerabilities is available in Arnaboldi's research paper named "Exposing Hidden Exploitable Behaviors in Programming Languages Using Differential Fuzzing."

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/secure-apps-exposed-to-hacking-via-flaws-in-underlying-programming-languages/

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday December 13 2017, @03:55AM

    by Arik (4543) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @03:55AM (#609076) Journal
    "I'm not by any stretch saying not to keep on top of things as best you're able and write secure code to the best of your ability. That's one of the programming givens for me."

    That's great and I think you are misunderstanding me a little.

    I'm not criticizing your personal practices, which I am sure are better than industry standard and nothing to be ashamed about.

    I'm talking about the broader eco-system. You're working inside a system where you have no choice but to rely on the foundations that others built. And it's not your fault that those foundations were not built to be reliable.

    But it still might concern you.
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