rocket

Ariane 5G

• During its maiden voyage it crashed due to a buffer overflow
  • Used coded from the Ariane 4
    • Assumptions were correct for the Ariane 4 but not the Ariane 5 trajectory
  • Tried to convert data from 64-bit floating point --> 16-bit signed integer
    • Caused an overflow
  • Programmers only wrote code to protect four out of seven critical variables from overflowing