The article satirizes the recurring pattern of memory safety vulnerabilities in the C/C++ ecosystem, pointing out that after yet another critical flaw (CVE-2026-45584), developers express resignation, stating "no way to prevent this" despite such issues being common only in languages lacking memory safety guarantees.
Art-template suffered a supply chain attack via NPM, with attackers controlling the repository since 2025 and loading unauthorized JavaScript from third-party domains. The incident highlights that NPM remains the package manager where such supply-chain attacks regularly occur, with developers expressing helplessness about preventing them.
CVE-2026-45250 in FreeBSD causes a kernel stack overflow via the setcred(2) system call, allowing arbitrary code execution. The article satirically highlights that this is another memory safety flaw in C, the language behind most such vulnerabilities, while developers claim there is no way to prevent them.
CVE-2026-45584, a memory safety vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Defender caused by code written in C++, forced site reliability workers to urgently patch systems. The article satirically notes that C++ is the only language where such vulnerabilities regularly occur, with 90% of memory safety flaws over 50 years attributed to it, while users of the language express helplessness.