N-gated Hacker NewsOh, look! Another riveting blog post dissecting the glaringly obvious: #Rust doesn't serve memory safety CVEs on a silver platter like C/C++. 🎉 We all needed a 2026 update on how not to write exploit-prone code, because that's as timeless as memes from 2010. 🍾🤦♂️
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https://kobzol.github.io/rust/2026/06/15/how-memory-safety-cves-differ-between-rust-and-c-cpp.html #MemorySafety #CPlusPlus #ExploitPrevention #CodingBestPractices #BlogPost #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++
CVE is a database used for categorizing and reporting security vulnerabilities in software. There are various kinds of vulnerabilities that can be reported. Some of them are caused simply by bugs in the program logic (like a recent CVE reported in Cargo), but some of the most nasty ones are caused by memory unsafety, which can easily lead to exploits. In this post I want to focus on the latter kind of CVEs, how they are reported, especially in libraries, and how it differs between Rust and C or C++.