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Temporal Memory Safety in C and C++: An AI-Enhanced Pointer Ownership Model
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- Feb 9, 2026
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Summary
In October 2025, CyberPress reported a critical security vulnerability in the Redis Server, an open-source in-memory database that allowed authenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution through a use-after-free flaw in the Lua scripting engine. In 2024, another prominent temporal memory safety flaw was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel: CVE-2024-1086 . Bugs related to temporal memory safety, such as use-after-free and double-free vulnerabilities, are challenging issues in C and C++ code. In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) , Lori Flynn , a senior software security research er in the SEI's CERT Division, and David Svoboda , a senior software engineer, also in CERT, sit down with Tim Chick , technical manager of CERT's Applied Systems Group, to discuss recent updates to the Pointer Ownership Model for C , a modeling framework designed to improve the ability of developers to statically analyze C programs for errors involving temporal memory.