0 sats \ 2 replies \ @om 8 Jan 2023 \ parent \ on: Is LND (Lightning Labs) ruining the Lighting Network? bitcoin
They don't necessarily protect you against an attack.
Buffer overflows IIRC are a majority of vulnerabilities. Can't find the stats right now.
Definitely.
If all of this is exposed to the internet then yes, maybe I won't.
You will not drive cars because of that?
If all of this is exposed to the internet then yes, maybe I won't.
Buffer overflows with terrible consequences can be caused by any unexpected input data if code doesn't handle that, even without being connected to Internet or bad actor feeding in this data with intent.
P.S. Buffer overflow problem could have been solved by segmented memory architecture of x86 protected mode (put every data structure in different memory segment with specified size, no overflows possible, CPU handles that), unfortunatelly, that didn't get widespread use, because wasn't portable to different CPU architectures and eventually got dropped from x86_64.
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It can be, yes, but mostly in the sense that one can win a lottery. It is bad actors that you should beware of.
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