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.

    • dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Explain how a use after free could occur in safe rust, because to my knowledge, that is exactly the kind of thing rust does protect against.

      • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        Easy. Do some specific incantation that barely looks like it follows rust syntax that is specifically made to exploit a bug in the rust compiler.

    • Noja@sopuli.xyz
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      You never say “would not of”. It’s “would not have”.

      Rust would have prevented this, because the borrow checker prevents use-after-free vulnerabilites.

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      Do you know what a use-after-free bug is? Rust was literally designed to make this type of memory bug impossible.