Defining the Rust 2024 edition

Posted Jan 31, 2024 18:48 UTC (Wed) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: Defining the Rust 2024 edition by LtWorf
Parent article: Defining the Rust 2024 edition

>In rust a crash or a memory leak are considered safe and would not fail compilation.

So?

>They would however generate a CVE.

Why? Garbage in, garbage out.
A program termination on garbage input is perfectly safe and sane.

>is making you appear like a fanboy.

So?

Defining the Rust 2024 edition

Posted Jan 31, 2024 19:02 UTC (Wed) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (1 responses)

> So?

So it's a "denial of service", you can ask a CVE number for that.

Say that I'm in an online game and I can crash the server making everyone else unable to play… that's a security bug, whatever your personal feelings might be.

> A program termination on garbage input is perfectly safe and sane.

No it isn't. It is better than jumping to whatever memory and running, but isn't what software should be doing, no.

> So?

I'm sure you can find out what the word "fanboy" means on your own :)

Anyway since you are so intent in denying the obvious, and I'm an atheist and don't really accept faith arguments, feel free to continue on your own.

Defining the Rust 2024 edition

Posted Jan 31, 2024 19:08 UTC (Wed) by mb (subscriber, #50428) [Link]

>So it's a "denial of service", you can ask a CVE number for that.
>Say that I'm in an online game and I can crash the server making everyone else unable to play…
>that's a security bug, whatever your personal feelings might be.

Did you even read the CVE we are talking about?