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by pcwalton 3704 days ago
Nobody is saying RCE is impossible in memory safe languages, just much less likely.
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And this needs to be said more "RCE is possible in Rust", because sometimes it is portrayed in almost unassailable terms.
It also needs to be said that this is generally not a reasonable reason to pick C over Rust. Memory-safe languages are effective defenses against these flaws.