Rust from a security perspective, where is it vulnerable?

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  • nomicon

    The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming

  • For more details on this kind of thing, you might be interested in the Rustonomicon, which is the goto guide for the details of writing unsafe Rust code.

  • high-assurance-rust

    A free book about developing secure and robust systems software.

  • "High Assurance Rust" is going to be an amazing resource, but is still being written. Still, good stuff there already: https://highassurance.rs/

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  • rustsec

    RustSec API & Tooling

  • For known vulnerabilities we have the rustsec vulnerability database. You could have a look over there for inspiration. There's also the related cargo-audit for checking dependencies for known vulnerabilities.

  • rust

    Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  • Rust has its own soundness issues. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/I-unsound

  • trophy-case

    🏆 Collection of bugs uncovered by fuzzing Rust code

  • You could check cargo-fuzz trophy case, which is a list of issues that have been found via fuzzing.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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