The rabbit hole of unsafe Rust bugs – notgull – The world's number one source of notgull (notgull.net)

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[-] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

The article mentions two bugs and the first is a use-after-free. The article spends most of the time discussing the second issue (the one you nicely explained).

[-] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

oh dang! I am a dummy and completely missed the first one somehow.

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