Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog)

Posted Dec 2, 2022 10:48 UTC (Fri) by TheGopher (subscriber, #59256)
In reply to: Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog) by roc
Parent article: Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog)

Yes, though for C and C++ I don't think arbitrary memory access is a big problem either, at least not in userspace code. Use after free is a big problem though, so maybe there are great gains there.

Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog)

Posted Dec 2, 2022 12:13 UTC (Fri) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779) [Link]

Arbitrary memory access typically gives you the equivalent of full code execution, so it's a pretty big deal. It also makes DoS nearly trivial.

Basically, Java and Rust both completely eradicate a certain class of errors that tends to create severe vulnerabilities, no matter what you choose to call that class.