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 …

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 …

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.

Feb 20, 2014 · The gets function is used for returning zero or more characters from the standard (console) input. Edit 1: Depending on your compiler implementation, the getch function may be …

When i use gets function,gcc gives me a warning: warning:the `gets' function is dangerous and should not be used. Why gets and puts function dangerous?

You can use fgets to read a line of input, and then sscanf to extract the integer from the line in memory. fgets, unlike gets, leaves the '\n' in your array, so you'll have to deal with that (though …

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 …

Mar 15, 2017 · gets may cause buffer overflow, since it don't consider length of the data. More details are here : gets () function in C deprecated message means, this function is marked as …

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, …

Whenever I do a scanf before a fgets the fgets instruction gets skipped. I have come accross this issue in C++ and I remember I had to had some instrcution that would clear the stdin buffer or …