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The First Stable Release of a Memory Safe sudo Implementation (www.memorysafety.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by varsock@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev
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The sudo-rs project improves on the security of the original sudo by:

  • Using a memory safe language (Rust), as it's estimated that one out of three security bugs in the original sudo have been memory management issues
  • Leaving out less commonly used features so as to reduce attack surface
  • Developing an extensive test suite which even managed to find bugs in the original sudo
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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Nice... the code is readable and so are the tests. Good job.

I bet there are many linux utilities still left to rewrite in rust.