Whilst overflowing it might corrupt memory and crash the program, the chance of it inserting code in a place where it might be executed and then forcing its execution is practically nil.</p> ••• ...

Google can't just rip and replace Chromium's existing C++ code with memory safer Rust, but it is working on ways to improve the memory safety of C++ by scanning heap allocated memory.

Diagnose the problem 1. Capture the heap dump A heap dump is a snapshot of what’s in your Java program’s memory at a given point in time. It contains details about objects that are present in memory, ...