Does Bing have a buffer overflow?

A few days ago, I was doing some Typescript work and went to search for a specific NPM package that I needed the docs for. I generally use DuckDuckGo these days, so I popped in my search and got back some results. These results were a bit odd: Having made a living off of writing C for a few years, I don’t like it when we get random looking byte strings in outputs. We’ve all seen the likes of (Heart|Cloud)Bleed and know that those random byte strings could be anything. Searching further, it’s not just the package I was searching for that has this issue (https://archive.is/gURQv, archived from the original): ...

December 11, 2024 · 2 min