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Re:Regex: badly needs fuzzing by pcwalton on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:30PM (#13602313)
> the types of bugs that Rust prevents compared to modern C++ are but one category of security-relevant bugs

Memory safety bugs frequently result in basically the worst possible compromise imaginable: arbitrary remote code execution. It is possible to get RCE in other ways, but lack of memory safety makes it way way easier.

Re:Regex: badly needs fuzzing by blub on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @06:52PM (#13603366)
This doesn't change anything, you've just added another link at the end of the system > non-functional > security > code execution security chain.

Each project has the option at every link to decide that they're willing to accept a certain risk there and then tools delivering better results don't matter.