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22 days ago | 5 days ago | |
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Rust from a security perspective, where is it vulnerable?
You could check cargo-fuzz trophy case, which is a list of issues that have been found via fuzzing.
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capnproto-rust: out-of-bound memory access bug
I've added it to the trophy case.
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[LWN] A pair of Rust kernel modules
That said, what's present in what quantities under what circumstances in the Rust fuzzing trophy case does a pretty good job of illustrating how effective the Rust compiler is at ruling out entire classes of bugs.
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Looking for simple rust programs to crash
The same fuzzing techniques applied to Rust yielded a lot of bugs as well. But in Rust's case only 7 out of 340 fuzzer-discovered bugs, or 2%, were memory corruption issues. Naturally, all of the memory corruption bugs were in unsafe code.
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Everything Is Broken: Shipping rust-minidump at Mozilla, Part 1
https://github.com/rust-fuzz/trophy-case has like 70 of my issues in it, including the nine minidump bugs
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Fuzzcheck (a structure-aware Rust fuzzer)
If you have found any bugs with this tool, perhaps add them to the Rust fuzz trophy case?
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Rust is more portable than C for pngquant/libimagequant
Source: https://github.com/rust-fuzz/trophy-case (over 40 of those are just from me).
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Rust takes a major step forward as Linux's second official language
But to bring some data, check out the fuzz trophy case. It shows that failures in Rust are most often assertions/panics (equivalent to C++ exception) with memory corruption being relatively rare (it's not neverโRust isn't promising magicโbut it's a significant change).
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Shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
You need to read the list more carefully.
โข The list is not for Rust itself, but every program every written in Rust. By itself it doesn't mean much, unless you compare prevalence of issues among Rust programs to prevalence of issues among C programs. For some context, see how memory unsafety is rare compared to assertions and uncaught exceptions: https://github.com/rust-fuzz/trophy-case
โข Many of the memory-unsafety issues are on the C FFI boundary, which is unsafe due to C lacking expressiveness about memory ownership of its APIs (i.e. it shows how dangerous is to program where you don't have the Rust borrow checker checking your code).
โข Many bugs about missing Send/Sync or evil trait implementations are about type-system loopholes that prevented compiler from catching code that was already buggy. C doesn't have these guarantees in the first place, so lack of them is not a CVE for C, but just how C is designed.
- Safer usage of C++ in Chrome
rustc_codegen_gcc
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How hard would it be to port the Rust toolchain to a new non-POSIX OS written in Rust and get it to host its own development? What would that process entail?
Alternatively, there's another initiative called codegen_gcc which is about using GCC as a backend for the rustc compiler. It's (much) more advanced in Rust support, but I am not sure how easy it would be to use a modified libgccjit from there.
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"Rust makes me never want to touch C again" -- Matthew Ahrens
In addition to what others have said about platform support, Rust is also on its way to gaining more platform support through rustc_codegen_gcc, the GCC codegen backend for rustc, as an alternative to the LLVM backend. That means many of the platforms GCC supports will suddenly become available with Rust.
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Rust contributions for Linux 6.4 are finally merged upstream!
Yeah, rustc_codegen_gcc is a GCC backend for rustc, and its making a lot of good regular progress.
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GCC 13 and the State of Gccrs
gcc-rs is one of two projects for bringing Rust to gcc. gcc-rs is the more ambitious of the two, with an entirely new frontend. There is also rustc_codegen_gcc (https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_gcc) that keeps the rustc frontend, and only swaps out LLVM for GCC at the codegen stage.
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rustc_codegen_gcc: Progress Report #22
Fixing unwinding in release mode is still ungoing. I could use some help here, so anyone with some understanding of unwinding, landing pads or GCC, please come on this issue to discuss this.
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Any alternate Rust compilers?
Additionally, there is gcc codegen for rustc (https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_gcc), which is not a compiler per se, but an alternative code generator, with more architectures supported and other nice things. It's also coming along, but there's still a lot of work to do there too. There's also Cranelift codegen (https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift), which is designed to make debug builds faster, but this is not as exciting/useful as the other 2.
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rustc_codegen_gcc: Progress Report #21
Good idea. I added the tag "help wanted" to the issue.
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Challenges writing a compiler frontend targeting both LLVM and GCC?
Also, there are indeed ABI issues, e.g. for 128-bit integers and NaN.
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A brave new world: building glibc with LLVM
I'm excited about both the backend & the frontend.
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Rust front-end merged in GCC trunk
There is also a project for rustc to use GCC instead of LLVM for codegen.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_gcc
What are some alternatives?
diem - Diemโs mission is to build a trusted and innovative financial network that empowers people and businesses around the world.
gccrs - GCC Front-End for Rust
go-fuzz - Randomized testing for Go
gcc-rust - a (WIP) Rust frontend for gcc / a gcc backend for rustc
min-sized-rust - ๐ฆ How to minimize Rust binary size ๐ฆ
BLAKE3 - the official Rust and C implementations of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function
databend - ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ, ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ & ๐๐. Modern alternative to Snowflake. Cost-effective and simple for massive-scale analytics. https://databend.com
bitwarden_rs - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs [Moved to: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden]
compiler-explorer - Run compilers interactively from your web browser and interact with the assembly
go - The Go programming language
libgccjit-patches - Patches awaiting review for libgccjit