"No way to prevent this" says users of the only programming language where this regularly happens

In the hours following the release of CVE-2023-6246 for the project GNU glibc, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a heap-based buffer overflow in the syslog() function resulting in memory corruption or even arbitrary code execution when run in SUID binaries. This is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen. "This...