The fact that they found a memory safety bug is excellent. Maybe translating old C projects to Rust via this method can be used to find memory issues as well as to aid rewriting in Rust projects.

EDIT: You can try the transpilation yourself on https://c2rust.com/

Here's an example of the output:

    #![allow(dead_code, mutable_transmutes, non_camel_case_types, non_snake_case,
             non_upper_case_globals, unused_assignments, unused_mut)]
    #![register_tool(c2rust)]
    #![feature(register_tool)]
    #[no_mangle]
    pub unsafe extern "C" fn insertion_sort(n: libc::c_int, p: *mut libc::c_int) {
        let mut i: libc::c_int = 1 as libc::c_int;
        while i < n {
            let tmp: libc::c_int = *p.offset(i as isize);
            let mut j: libc::c_int = i;
            while j > 0 as libc::c_int &&
                      *p.offset((j - 1 as libc::c_int) as isize) > tmp {
                *p.offset(j as isize) =
                    *p.offset((j - 1 as libc::c_int) as isize);
                j -= 1
            }
            *p.offset(j as isize) = tmp;
            i += 1
        };
    }