The sudo and su utilities mediate a critical privilege boundary on just about every open source operating system that powers the Internet. Unfortunately, these utilities have a long history of memory safety issues. By rewriting sudo and su in Rust we can make sure they don’t suffer from any more memory safety vulnerabilities. We’re going to get it done. Like I said – Rust is everywhere. Of course, these s ... ⌘ Read more
The sudo and su utilities mediate a critical privilege boundary on just about every open source operating system that powers the Internet. Unfortunately, these utilities have a long history of memory safety issues. By rewriting sudo and su in Rust we can make sure they don’t suffer from any more memory safety vulnerabilities. We’re going to get it done. Like I said – Rust is everywhere. Of course, these s ... ⌘ Read more