“I think roughly two-thirds of serious kernel CVEs stem from memory safety bugs. And 30 years of C discipline hadn't moved that number in any other positive direction.”

Danilo Krumich · Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Danilo Krummrich on Rust in the Linux Kernel

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argued that two-thirds of serious kernel CVEs are memory-safety bugs, motivating Rust

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