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Memory safety vulnerabilities can manifest when memory is accessed in unintended ways. The White House report breaks these vulnerabilities down into two key categories: spatial and temporal.
Spatial vulnerabilities occur when memory is accessed outside the bounds established for variables, leading to destructive consequences like buffer overflows.
Temporal vulnerabilities arise when data from freed memory is accessed, potentially resulting in unexpected behaviors, as seen in race conditions.
Given that roughly 70% of bugs are tied to memory corruption vulnerabilities, the advocacy for adopting memory-safe programming languages like Rust is both timely and necessary.