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> The fact that an inappropriate write through a pointer results in behavior that is so undefined that it can lead to remote code execution

This is a strange way to look at it. You'd get remote code execution only if the result of writing through the pointer was exactly what you'd expect: that the value you tried to write was copied into the memory indexed by the pointer.



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