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		rwallace on June 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Little C Function From Hell Can you give some examples of why you think this is more prone to security vulnerabilities than using signed types?

lawnchair_larry on June 21, 2012 [–]

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2002-142...

rwallace on June 22, 2012 | [–]

Ah, thanks. From reading the summary, it seems that case would have been prevented by using signed integers throughout, but would also have been prevented by using unsigned integers throughout?

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