CVE-2024-38063

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+title: '"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens'
+date: 2024-08-14
+series: "no-way-to-prevent-this"
+type: blog
+hero:
+  ai: "Photo by Andrea Piacquadio, source: Pexels"
+  file: sad-business-man
+  prompt: A forlorn business man resting his head on a brown wall next to a window.
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+In the hours following the release of [CVE-2024-38063](https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38063) for the project [Microsoft Windows](https://microsoft.com), site reliability workers
+and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a vulnerability where a specially crafted IPv6 packet can result in remote code execution.. This is due to the affected components being
+written in C++, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen. "This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes
+these things just happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them," said programmer Queen Myra Weissnat, echoing statements
+expressed by hundreds of thousands of programmers who use the only language where 90% of the world's memory safety vulnerabilities have
+occurred in the last 50 years, and whose projects are 20 times more likely to have security vulnerabilities. "It's a shame, but what can
+we do? There really isn't anything we can do to prevent memory safety vulnerabilities from happening if the programmer doesn't want to
+write their code in a robust manner." At press time, users of the only programming language in the world where these vulnerabilities
+regularly happen once or twice per quarter for the last eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as "helpless."