Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.
    • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
      61·
      22 days ago

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

      • Muehe@lemmy.mlEnglish
        61·
        22 days 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).

        • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
          51·
          22 days ago

          … and replace them with a whole new class of bugs.

          Source: I’ve been writing software since 1982.