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Google has the means and ability to rewrite Chromium ; bug for bug in Rust from C++ using Astra & Fable. Same for the Linux kernel. Considering the Fermat's La
by keel-control 12d ago
Google has the means and ability to rewrite Chromium ; bug for bug in Rust from C++ using Astra & Fable.
Same for the Linux kernel. Considering the Fermat's Last Theorem lean proof was 13MLoC and cost $300,000 it would cost $2M to rewrite Chromium & Linux in Rust going purely of combined LoC.
- mccr8 12d agoWriting Chromium entirely in Rust wouldn't prevent a JIT bug like this.
- keel-control 12d agook for this CVE exactly it wouldn't have worked but the general pareto 80-20 rule stands regarding the rest of the memory safety vulns
- weberer 12d agoWhy don't you do it and post it here then?
- keel-control 12d agoI don't have $2M