cURL 7.51 Released With Many Security Fixes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: cURL 7.51 Released With Many Security Fixes

cURL 7.51.0 was released today and while it does add some new features it does contain a number of active CVEs...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=cURL-7.51-Released

[mulenmar]

"double-frees"? Sounds like it's time to start rewriting pieces in Rust!

[mr_tawan]

"double-frees"? Sounds like it's time to start rewriting pieces in Rust!

What's about RAII :-)

[bug77]

"double-frees"? Sounds like it's time to start rewriting pieces in Rust!

If you knew the first thing about engineering, you'd know there no robustness without some redundancy. What if the first free fails? The second one has your back!

[SaucyJack]

"double-frees"? Sounds like it's time to start rewriting pieces in C++!

fixed

[cj.wijtmans]

Rust, what a terrible language. too lazy to type out "function" but not too lazy to type out "let" a million times.

[unixfan2001]

Rust, what a terrible language. too lazy to type out "function" but not too lazy to type out "let" a million times.

Doesn't understand (functional) programming,

still goes ahead to spam the forum with his anti-Rust BS...

[cj.wijtmans]

Doesn't understand (functional) programming,

still goes ahead to spam the forum with his anti-Rust BS...

Care to substantiate what i said has anything to do with functional programming or are you just going to post flaming ad hominem bs?

[unixfan2001]

Care to substantiate what i said has anything to do with functional programming or are you just going to post flaming ad hominem bs?

Gladly.

For starters typing out "function" is not a must but simply an outdated design pattern. In a perfect, functional world you wouldn't even need to append a function with "fn" but introduce functions implicitly or, in the case of anonymous functions, with fat arrows.

Secondly, "let" is a lambda abstraction used to bind a variable/function definition to a restricted scope.
Utilizing thin arrows as pointers we can also use let to create variable bindings to a function. Like so:

 
 let f: fn(i32) -> i32;