safecode.txt

Associated article: Safe Coding Practices

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Published source code accompanying the article by Gwyn Fisher in which he examines several types of coding vulnerabilities and examines how you can mitigate the risk of exploit within your Java, C, and C++ code.

					Safe Coding Practices
by Gwyn Fisher

Example 1

(a)
void LoadTypeFromStream(unsigned char* stream, SOMETYPE* typtr)
{
  int len;
  // Get the size of our type's serialized form
  memcpy(&len, stream, sizeof(int));
  // De-serialize the type
  memcpy(typtr, stream + sizeof(int), len);
}

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