Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog)

Posted Dec 2, 2022 12:13 UTC (Fri) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)
In reply to: Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog) by TheGopher
Parent article: Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog)

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.