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pcwalton on Jan 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A 30 minute introduction to Rust

> From my admittedly limited perspective, it seems like it could eliminate a lot of mistakes that lead to insecure software, but then again, I don't know how common memory-flaw exploits are.

We have done measurements on this for Firefox code. 100% of the security vulnerabilities for Web Audio were memory safety flaws.

dbaupp on Jan 13, 2014 [–]

How many bugs in total? And, memory safety that Rust would've protected against?

kibwen on Jan 13, 2014 | [–]

I forget the exact number, but it was at least 20. And I believe they concluded that, yes, Rust would have caught them. I'll need to ask pcwalton to be sure though.

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