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Memory Management: Leaks are bad, RCE is worse (#997)

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Leaks are bad, RCE is worse
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Dominik Maier
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@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ void foo(size_t n) {
Memory is leaked if the function returns early between `malloc` and `free`: the
pointer is lost and we cannot deallocate the memory.
Worse, freeing the pointer twice, or accessing a freed pointer can lead to exploitable security vulnerabilities.