On average, 26% of the total lines of code in the 10 largest open source projects consisted of memory-unsafe code. Even projects written in memory-safe languages were at risk from dependencies on ...

In VS Code 1.66, the JavaScript debugger now supports collecting and visualizing heap profiles, so developers can see where and how much memory is being allocated over time.

The report concluded that most critical open source projects potentially contain memory safety vulnerabilities. This is a result of direct use of memory unsafe languages or external dependency on ...

Security analysts found that 52% of open-source projects are written in memory-unsafe languages like C and C++.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published research looking into 172 key open-source projects and whether they are susceptible to memory flaws.

Software firms and the National Security Agency urge developers to move to memory-safe programming languages to eliminate a major source of high-severity flaws.