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CISA Warns of Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks to Deploy Ransomware (cybersecuritynews.com)
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This vulnerability, hidden within the netfilter: nf_tables component, allows local attackers to escalate their privileges and potentially deploy ransomware, which could severely disrupt enterprise systems worldwide.

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[–] AMoistGrandpa@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Rust is a programming language which was designed to be memory safe without any of the overhead caused by traditional memory safety techniques employed by existing languages (namely, garbage collection and reference counting). It does this by shifting the memory management from happening at runtime to happening at compile time. The compiler forces the programmer to follow certain rules to ensure that their program can be proven to be free of errors such as use-after-frees and double-frees. Because of this design philosophy, Rust is a good fit as a replacement for C, because it can do everything that C can while ensuring the programmer doesn't make any mistakes with regard to memory management.