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Critical Rust flaw enables Windows command injection attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

In February, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged technology companies to adopt memory-safe programming languages like Rust.

My comment is somewhat unfair, but WH is not the right body to make this kind of recommendation.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And the problem is about executing programs in windows. This is not about memory-safety.

A bunch of other languages are affected as well as noted by @[email protected].

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