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 …

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 …

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 …

Jul 10, 2015 · And the difference between gets/scanf and fgets is that gets(); and scanf(); only scan until the first space ' ' while fgets(); scans the whole input. (but be sure to clean the buffer …

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 …

Oct 28, 2014 · gets - Reads characters from stdin and stores them as a string. scanf - Reads data from stdin and stores them according to the format specified int the scanf statement like %d, …

Feb 9, 2015 · The problematic difference between gets and fgets is that gets removes the trailing '\n' from an input line but fgets keeps it. This means an 'empty' line returned by fgets will …

I am using the function gets () in my C code. My code is working fine but I am getting a warning message (.text+0xe6): warning: the `gets' function is dangerous and should not be used.

I learned that gets creates a new line and asks the user to input something, and gets.chomp does the same thing except that it does not create a new line. gets must return an object, so you …

Oct 21, 2012 · 0 gets is dangerous because it lets you read in more data than you've allocated space for, you can use fgets which specifies how many characters it is going to read in and …