"US and International Partners Issue Recommendations to Secure Software Products Through Memory Safety"
The National Security Agency (NSA) has joined the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other US and international partners in releasing a Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) titled "The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps." The report, which expands on NSA's "Software Memory Safety" CSI published in April 2023, offers guidance for software manufacturers and technology providers in developing roadmaps tailored to eliminate memory safety vulnerabilities from their products. Memory safety vulnerabilities are coding errors impacting software's memory management code that allow memory to be accessed, written, allocated, or deallocated in unintended ways. The exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow malicious actors to access or corrupt data, as well as execute arbitrary malicious code with the same privileges as the system owner. This article continues to discuss the CSI on securing software products through memory safety.
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