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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published research looking into 172 key open-source projects and whether they are susceptible to memory flaws.

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[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago

Rewriting something in rust could create more vulnerabilities. You would be throwing away your well tested code and starting over from scratch in a language you may be less familiar with. A memory safe language doesn't protect against everything.

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