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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by Denvercoder9 on Saturday November 01, 2025 @02:59PM (#45784321)
> But hasn't all that foundational code been stable and wrung out already over the last 30+ years?

No: a little less than 5 years ago there was CVE-2020-27350, a memory safety bug in the tar/ar implementations.

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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by Arrowmaster on Saturday November 01, 2025 @10:33PM (#45787429)
But just this year there was CVE-2025-62518 in tokio-tar.
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