"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-93479 for the project NGINX, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a heap buffer overflow in worker script evaluation triggered by crafted requests when regex map captures are referenced before the map output, or when a non-cacheable variable is used in certain string expressions, causing worker restarts and potentially code execution if ASLR is disabled or bypassed. This is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen. "This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them," said programmer Mr. Mariano Franecki, echoing statements expressed by hundreds of thousands of programmers who use the only language where 90% of the world's memory safety vulnerabilities have occurred in the last 50 years, and whose projects are 20 times more likely to have security vulnerabilities. "It's a shame, but what can we do? There really isn't anything we can do to prevent memory safety vulnerabilities from happening if the programmer doesn't want to write their code in a robust manner." At press time, users of the only programming language in the world where these vulnerabilities regularly happen once or twice per quarter for the last eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as "helpless."

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-15176 for the project NGINX, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a heap buffer overflow in a worker process triggered by crafted requests when alias is combined with rewrite and $request_filename is referenced by set, return, or an access log format, causing worker restarts and potentially allowing code execution if ASLR is disabled or bypassed. This is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen. "This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them," said programmer Ms. Odie Leuschke, echoing statements expressed by hundreds of thousands of programmers who use the only language where 90% of the world's memory safety vulnerabilities have occurred in the last 50 years, and whose projects are 20 times more likely to have security vulnerabilities. "It's a shame, but what can we do? There really isn't anything we can do to prevent memory safety vulnerabilities from happening if the programmer doesn't want to write their code in a robust manner." At press time, users of the only programming language in the world where these vulnerabilities regularly happen once or twice per quarter for the last eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as "helpless."

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-97205 for the project NGINX, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a use-after-free in a worker process when asynchronous file I/O is enabled in certain configurations and an SSI page containing include virtual commands is processed, causing memory corruption or a worker crash and potentially allowing code execution if ASLR is disabled or bypassed. This is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen. "This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them," said programmer Mr. Mariano Franecki, echoing statements expressed by hundreds of thousands of programmers who use the only language where 90% of the world's memory safety vulnerabilities have occurred in the last 50 years, and whose projects are 20 times more likely to have security vulnerabilities. "It's a shame, but what can we do? There really isn't anything we can do to prevent memory safety vulnerabilities from happening if the programmer doesn't want to write their code in a robust manner." At press time, users of the only programming language in the world where these vulnerabilities regularly happen once or twice per quarter for the last eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as "helpless."

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