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 dramatically …

Jul 10, 2015 · Never use gets. It offers no protections against a buffer overflow vulnerability (that is, you cannot tell it how big the buffer you pass to it is, so it cannot prevent a user from entering a line …

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 …

Jun 20, 2025 · 2 Why was the gets function removed instead of just changing its signature? At least in part because removing gets() from the language specification does not mean that implementations …

Apr 21, 2017 · puts выводит переданную строку и символ новой строки, а printf - генерирует выводимую строку на основании строки формата и дополнительных данных. Если коротко. …

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 propagating from …

Jan 4, 2015 · 1 gets() is no more a standard and it might lead to buffer overflow so you should use fgets() in-order to read till end of line . In order to read char by char until you encounter space you …

Feb 23, 2021 · I have a confusion related to using puts(), gets(), putchar() and getchar() simultaneously use in the code. When I have run the below code, it is doing all steps: taking the input, printing the …

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 runs in …

The only way you can ever use gets is if stdin is known to be attached to a file whose contents you have full control over. This condition is almost impossible to satisfy, especially on multiprocess systems …