What about security issues in Fortran?

[vmagnin]

@beliavsky
My knowledge of Windows is quite limited but NTFS is a modern system which can deal with users and groups. I remember having been asked a password when trying to access the system directories on C:\ from the file explorer. Probably it would be the same thing if you try to navigate into those directories from CMD?

I have never tried WSL, and I don’t know if the sudo rights concern only the directories of the Linux system or also the whole Windows filesystem.

But note that even without sudo, on a Linux system you can cause great damages as you can delete all the user’s files!

And yes, looking for the strings you cited could be a good practice when using big codes, using for example grep:

$ grep -inRI EXECUTE_COMMAND_LINE

See also that discussion about the necessity to use use, intrinsic ::

Programming errors by language

In the thread which @vmagnin linked, Steve mentions an ISO document demonstrating several Fortran vulnerabilities. Some scenarios are quite interesting like use iso_c_binding ! potentially exploitable use, intrinsic :: iso_c_binding ! safer The idea here is that one might inadvertently use a non-intrinsic iso_c_binding containing malicious code. Thanks @billlong for sharing the article.