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In general, to be safe you should treat all memory corruption bugs as leading to code execution. Now, it may be difficult to exploit the bug, but more often than not "probably unexploitable" bugs end up being exploitable; even bad primitives like one-byte overwrites or wild copies. Of course, without an exploit you can always just say "ok this is not exploitable, I'm going to ignore it", but such an outlook is generally frowned upon now.


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