Article 5RD6X GCC & LLVM Patches Pending To Fend Off Trojan Source Attacks

GCC & LLVM Patches Pending To Fend Off Trojan Source Attacks

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Making rounds today are the "Trojan Source" attacks by which text displayed to the end-user/developer doesn't match what is actually being executed. The problem stems from Unicode standards and could lead to malicious code being inadvertently introduced into upstream code-bases that could be overlooked during code review processes, etc. GCC and LLVM/Clang are among the early compilers preparing defenses against Trojan Source style attacks...
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