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Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

And if you think that migration to Rust will magically remove all bugs and vulnerabilities, you haven't been writing software for very long.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Nobody said it would? But both of these vulnerabilities were use-after-free, so using Rust would probably have helped here (you know if Rust had been a thing back when they were introduced).

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