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by jeroenhd 1330 days ago
We have no indication that memory safety is even involved in this bug. For all we know, it could be a timing vulnerability that allows factoring key material, data being copied from the wrong object, or a protocol flow bug that let's the attacker bypass validation. You can create a vulnerability by adding || where you meant && in any programming language, even Rust without unsafe code enabled.
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its hilarious how HNers on the "pro memory safety" side of the fence have this moronic attitude that memory disclosures are likely to happen in memory-safe languages. its simply false. you may be right in 1% of cases, but no more.