'Phoronix reports:
With the financial backing of Amazon Web Services, sudo and su are
being rewritten in the Rust programming language in order to increase
the memory safety for the widely relied upon software... to further
enhance Linux/open-source security.
"[B]ecause it's written in C, sudo has experienced many
vulnerabilities related to memory safety issues," according to a blog
post announcing the project:
It's important that we secure our most critical software, particularly
from memory safety vulnerabilities. It's hard to imagine software
that's much more critical than sudo and su.
This work is being done by a joint team from Ferrous Systems and
Tweede Golf with generous support from Amazon Web Services. The work
plan is viewable here. The GitHub repository is here. '
-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/05/01/0020239
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
Mobile +64 22 190 2375
https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
