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These 5 simple examples of memory management in C have the potential to cost your company billions of dollars or even put you in jail.

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🔗 Resources
- iso.org/standard/82075.html

📚 Chapters
- Bad bounds checking
- Heartbleed bounds check
- Using memory after it's been free()ed
- Off-By-One
- Double free()

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🔖 Topics Covered

- Memory management in C
- malloc() and free() in C
- Bounds checking in C
- The Morris Worm
- What caused Heartbleed?