December 10, 2017 By Pierluigi Paganini
Security expert discovered severe flaws in most popular programming languages that could expose to hack any secure application built on top of them.
Last week, IOActive Senior Security Consultant Fernando Arnaboldi presented at the Black Hat Europe 2017 security conference the results of an interesting research about vulnerabilities in several popular interpreted programming languages.
Arnaboldi analyzed the most popular programming languages (JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby) using the fuzzing software testing technique.
The idea behind this excellent study is that securely developed applications may be affected by unidentified vulnerabilities in the underlying programming languages that could be triggered by attackers.
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