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		methodology on Sept 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Official Go support > There are no buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Go applications Actually there are in certain cases [1], but there's a good reason for that. 1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25628920/slicing-operatio...

ominous_prime on Sept 23, 2014 [–]

But that's not a buffer overflow. You can't access uninitialized memory (well, without unsafe anyway).

jesstaa on Sept 24, 2014 | [–]

Without unsafe or a race condition. http://research.swtch.com/gorace

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