The Ubuntu 25.10 transition to using some Rust system utilities continues proving quite rocky. Beyond some early performance issues with Rust Coreutils, breakage for some executables, and broken unattended upgrades due to a Rust Coreutils bug, it’s also sudo-rs now causing Ubuntu developers some headaches. There are two moderate security issues affecting sudo-rs, the Rust version of sudo being used by Ubuntu 25.10.

  • eah@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    memory safety isn’t the only source of security vulnerabilities

    I would like you to produce an example of a Rust evangelist disputing this. They’re not as dimwitted or misguided as you seem to think.