Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.
    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      24 hours ago

      Something else will come along with an entourage of fanboys pushing for it to be the next porting language.

      It’ll be great; until the next one comes along.

      By then the kernel will be so slow that Linux will die.

    • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
      5·
      1 day 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
        41·
        1 day 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).