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sudo-rs Affected By Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - Impacting Ubuntu 25.10 (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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The Ubuntu 25.10 transition to using some Rust system utilities continues proving quite rocky. Beyond some early performance issues with Rust Coreutils, breakage for some executables, and broken unattended upgrades due to a Rust Coreutils bug, it's also sudo-rs now causing Ubuntu developers some headaches. There are two moderate security issues affecting sudo-rs, the Rust version of sudo being used by Ubuntu 25.10.

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[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah, it's just that a whole lot of people, me included, are tired of foolish "but Rust is safe!!!1" propaganda-like shallow screams, like kids getting a new toy. I am ok when watching Linux distro battles, because that's by definition child's play and individual experience varies wildly among participants, but regarding programming languages I would rather see a long boring description of what is tackled how and why this is better than the "bad and buggy" alternative than this cheap shouting.

P.S. the critics does not go to you personally, yours is a good post, I thank you for it

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah, it's just that a whole lot of people, me included, are tired of foolish "but Rust is safe!!!1" propaganda-like shallow screams, like kids getting a new toy.

Okay, and I'm tired of seeing every Rust-related thread filled with random idiots shitting on Rust for no real reason (often unprompted, with no actual argument other than "hurr durr stupid cult of rust bad hurr durr why use rust when c do trick") and then go on about how the brilliant, genius, enlightened C programmers will save us with their 3000 IQ brainpower and never make mistakes. It's just tiring. Every Linux discussion about Rust, every discussion about some software being rewritten in Rust (even by the original developers), every discussion even tangentially related to Rust ends up like this.

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Well, yeah. Foolish people are tiring, no matter the side