In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutil…
  • Visstix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    I was very confused by this sentence until I realized it’s a programming thingy.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      11·
      29 days ago

      Yeah it needs the word that inserting into the sentence.

      Bugs that Rust won’t catch.

  • RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’m not a rust programmer, can anyone with experience in systems programming explain a legitimate use case for the uutils other than weakening the GPL? The auther even admits that several coreutils are still GNU in 26.04 which begs one to ask “why the rewrite?”

    • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth
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      30 days ago

      The goal is to create a more secure version of the program. Since (safe) rust eliminates entire classes of security relevant bugs, a rust version has the potential to be much more secure that the C version. And since rust can eliminate entire classes of bugs, we can put more energy into finding bugs like the ones presented in the article.

      The weaker license is unfortunate, though.