Curated security research, vulnerabilities, advisories and tools for practitioners.

#c

Security coverage tagged c.

1.

Escalating a Windows driver registry bug to a kernel write primitive

blog | 2026-05-05 11:00 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #code-review | #privilege-escalation | #windows-security

2.

Master C and C++ with our new Testing Handbook chapter

blog | 2026-04-09 11:00 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #appsec | #memory-safety | #code-review

3.

Taming 2,500 compiler warnings with CodeQL, an OpenVPN2 case study

blog | 2025-09-25 11:00 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #c | #openvpn | #static-analysis

4.

Catching OpenSSL misuse using CodeQL

blog | 2023-12-22 14:00 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #appsec | #cryptography | #c

5.

Publishing Trail of Bits’ CodeQL queries

blog | 2023-12-06 13:30 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #cryptography | #c | #go

6.

Finding bugs in C code with Multi-Level IR and VAST

vulnerability | 2023-06-15 11:00 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #vulnerability-research | #c | #static-analysis

7.

Typos that omit security features and how to test for them

blog | 2023-04-20 11:00 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #secure-coding | #c | #cpp

8.

Dopamine: rootless semi-untethered jailbreak for iOS 15 to 26.0.1

tool | 2023-01-31 21:28 | github.com | original ↗ | #open-source | #mobile-security | #ios

9.

High-fidelity build instrumentation with blight

blog | 2020-11-25 14:38 | blog.trailofbits.com | original ↗ | #open-source | #python | #c

10.

Unaligned accesses in C/C++: what, why and solutions to do it properly

research | 2018-10-15 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #c | #cpp | #programming

11.

A glance at compiler internals: Keep my memset

research | 2014-06-26 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #c | #llvm | #compilers

12.

Convert IPv4 string representation to a 32-bit number with SSE instructions

research | 2014-05-11 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #c | #performance | #optimization

13.

Unique random number set computation

research | 2013-09-08 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #cryptography | #c | #algorithms

14.

Visual C++ RTTI Inspection

research | 2013-07-12 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | original ↗ | #windows | #reverse-engineering | #binary-analysis