Upon invoking delete, the memory is actually put in a quarantine, where it is unavailable for being reused for subsequent new calls by the application, Google said.

NJAMD also is capable of tracing leaks in library functions that wrap malloc and free, GUI widget allocators and C++ new and delete. Often a memory leak is not discovered immediately but lurks, ...

Memory vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure,' say CISA and NSA The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security ...

The C-language extension compiler includes memory-safe pointers along with new safety features not found in C or C++.

But – as experts have noted in debates over Rust and C/C++ – the NSA warns that simply using a memory safe language doesn't by default preclude introducing memory bugs to software.

Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.

With automatic memory management and memory-safe pointers, the open source compiler TrapC is designed to make code written in C and C++ safer.