Dec 3, 2010 · The Early Bug gets () the Internet Worm The problems in C are not confined to just the language. Some routines in the standard library have unsafe semantics. This was …

Why is gets() dangerous The first internet worm (the Morris Internet Worm) escaped about 30 years ago (1988-11-02), and it used gets() and a buffer overflow as one of its methods of …

Oct 15, 2012 · The gets () function does not perform bounds checking, therefore this function is extremely vulnerable to buffer-overflow attacks. It cannot be used safely (unless the program …

Jul 10, 2015 · Yes, you want to avoid gets. fgets will always read the new-line if the buffer was big enough to hold it (which lets you know when the buffer was too small and there's more of the …

I am using the function gets () in my C code. My code is working fine but I am getting a warning message (.text+0xe6): warning: the `gets' function is dangerous and should not be used.

Oct 28, 2014 · gets - Reads characters from stdin and stores them as a string. scanf - Reads data from stdin and stores them according to the format specified int the scanf statement like %d, …

I learned that gets creates a new line and asks the user to input something, and gets.chomp does the same thing except that it does not create a new line. gets must return an object, so you …

Nov 20, 2022 · I'm trying to use gets() to get a string from the user, but the program seems to be passing right over gets(). There is no pause for the user to give input. Why is gets() not doing …

Oct 1, 2009 · I have a program written in C and it calls gets() from a switch when a user chooses the option of 3. Here is my code. It does not seem to wait to wait for the user to input …

Jul 11, 2020 · 0 gets_s has a significant limitation in that you must provide an upper limit on the number of characters you want to read. Since you are using string the superior alternative is to …