{"id":13312,"date":"2021-05-10T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T03:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=13312"},"modified":"2021-05-10T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T03:40:07","slug":"aacfpbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-aacfpbe\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Bugs with AddressSanitizer: Patterns from Open Source Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AddressSanitizer (ASan) was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/address-sanitizer-for-msvc-now-generally-available\/\">officially released in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9<\/a>. We recently used this feature to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/finding-bugs-with-addresssanitizer-msvc-compiler\/\">find and fix a bug in the MSVC compiler itself<\/a>. To further validate the usefulness of our ASan implementation, we also used it on a collection of widely used open-source projects where it found bugs in Boost, Azure IoT C SDK, and OpenSSL. In this article, we present our findings by describing the type of bugs that we found and how they presented themselves in these projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AddressSanitizer (ASan) was\u00a0officially released in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9. We recently used this feature to\u00a0find and fix a bug in the MSVC compiler itself. To further validate the usefulness of our ASan implementation, we also used it on a collection of widely used open-source projects where it found bugs in Boost, Azure IoT C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9348,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>AddressSanitizer (ASan) was\u00a0officially released in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9. We recently used this feature to\u00a0find and fix a bug in the MSVC compiler itself. To further validate the usefulness of our ASan implementation, we also used it on a collection of widely used open-source projects where it found bugs in Boost, Azure IoT C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}