The memory safety problems of older C++

Before we move on to discuss the memory safety issues in older and modern C++, let’s attempt to define it. Citing from the White House report: “Memory safety vulnerabilities are a class of vulnerability affecting how memory can be accessed, written, allocated, or deallocated in unintended ways (...) There are two broad categories of memory safety vulnerabilities: spatial and temporal. Spatial memory safety issues result from memory accesses performed outside of the “correct” bounds established for variables and objects in memory. Temporal memory safety issues arise when memory is accessed outside of time or state, such as accessing object data after the object is freed or when memory accesses are unexpectedly interleaved.”

To view the source of the citing, you can go through page 7 of the document at the following link: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-ONCD-Technical-Report.pdf...