Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software

Re:Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software by galgalesh on Thursday February 18, 2021 @02:09PM (#26184107)

Rust is designed to integrate into legacy codebases so security critical code can be rewritten in small steps. See the URL parser I Firefox. Moreover, the initiative this post is talking about uses rust to rewrite small parts of a C codebase.

Honestly, I'm getting more and more disappointed by the quality of discussion here on HN.

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Re:Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software by tdimitrov on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:39AM (#26191241)

Thanks for the kind words :)

There is no such thing as security critical code. If it is out there - it can be expoloited. There are a lot of stories with minor exploit chaining leading to huge compromise.

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