A new study of C++ code snippets shared on code-sharing site Stack Overflow traced how they ended up in software projects hosted on GitHub. Researchers reviewed more than 72,000 code snippets drawn from 1,325 posts that were reused in at least one GitHub project over a 10-year period. They identified 69 vulnerable code snippets, which they categorized as belonging to one of 29 types of vulnerabilities. The researchers say they have already notified developers of the projects they studied about all errors they found.”]
Source: https://www.inforisktoday.com/blogs/developers-code-reuse-security-conundrum-cut-paste-fail-p-2798