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Re:Writing an OS in Rust: Advanced Paging by tptacek on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @12:31AM (#19024005)
qmail had LP64 memory corruption bugs.
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Re:Writing an OS in Rust: Advanced Paging by JoachimSchipper on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @02:26AM (#19024477)
One ever right? I wouldn't count that as "frequent" - lots of programs in memory-safe languages have more/worse bugs than qmail.

Of course, the existence of one significant not-too-vulnerable C program doesn't really prove a lot either way...

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Re:Writing an OS in Rust: Advanced Paging by tptacek on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @03:24PM (#19029511)
I though Georgi Guninski found several.
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