
ZDNet – December 11, 2017
ROOT CAUSE: language vulnerabilities are suspected of having been caused by attempts to simplify software development
IMPACT: the research shows that applications can suffer from security issues when using certain features from programming languages
IMPACT: “There are a number of possibilities to be abused in different implementations that could affect secure applications. There are unexpected scenarios for the interpreted programming languages parsing the code in JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby,”