alt Hacker NewsA nasty and rare bug can and will be exploited once it is found. The only thing necessary is for malicious actors to start adding this case in innocent looking code and there you have.
A nasty and rare bug can and will be exploited once it is found. The only thing necessary is for malicious actors to start adding this case in innocent looking code and there you have.
That's a misunderstanding. This is not a security vulnerability and Rust explicitly does not defend from malicious programs, only from mistakes. This bug however is quite dangerous, because unlike many soundness bugs it seems plausible to hit by mistake.