Memory safety issues are one of the leading causes of security vulnerabilities in computing systems, including embedded systems. In programming languages like C/C++, developers are expected to manage ...

Memory errors such as out-of-bounds reads and writes and use-after-free bugs have plagued applications for decades, causing problems ranging from minor execution glitches to global security nightmares ...

Rust is rapidly emerging as a preferred language for safety-critical and embedded systems, thanks to its memory safety guarantees and strong type system. However, its adoption is not without ...

Google's decision to use Rust for new code in Android in order to reduce memory-related flaws appears to be paying off. Memory safety vulnerabilities in Android have been more than halved – a ...

Rust’s ownership and borrowing mechanisms guarantee memory safety at run time. Here’s how to use them in your programs. The Rust programming language shares many concepts with other languages intended ...

In Rust we Trust: Modern programming languages designed to enforce memory safety are gaining popularity. Rust, a language initiated by software developer Graydon Hoare while working at Mozilla, is now ...

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The number of memory-related vulnerabilities in Android has dropped sharply over the past five years, thanks to Google's use of a secure-by-design approach that emphasizes the use of memory-safe ...

Last year, Google announced Android Open Source Project (AOSP) support for Rust, and today the company provided an update, while highlighting the decline in memory safety vulnerabilities. Google says ...