Comment by drvdevd

I agree. I keep seeing comments about C being the culprit, but in my mind, this is more of a policy issue regarding how any given language initializes and allocates memory.

Sure, in this case, we may see a C-specific bug in play, but I think this sort of bug is more effectively mitigated by forcing buffers to be zero-filled upon allocation and/or deallocation, and perhaps system-wide at the OS level, rather than relying upon language features to cover it.

So - I'm not explicitly defending C here - I just don't think a similar bug could never occur in a "memory safe" language as well.