Ask HN: Would any code analysis tools have caught have caught heartbleed?

1 pointsby macarthy1212 lat temu3 comments

If not, why not? Is this kind of issue something that a language feature could avoid?

2 comments

This blog post demonstrates how OpenSSL's unsafe C code can be migrated to a safe programming language called ATS (Applied Type System):

http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2014/04/11/preventing-heartbleed-bu...

See http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1125 (Heartbleed and Static Analysis)

macarthy1212 lat temu

Looks like the FLOSS community needs to start exploring these kind of tools.