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tonto
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Rust in the 6.2 kernel
denial of service can exploit some memory leaks i imagine
Hemospectrum
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Memory leaks are bad, but they can't break type safety. Buffer overflows and use-after-free are
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more dangerous.
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In that scenario a memory leak isn’t any more unsafe than any other program data that’s in memory.
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