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Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
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this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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They’re not calling Rust unsafe. There is a memory safe mode and a memory unsafe mode in Rust, and this was built in unsafe Rust which allowed for the memory bug to be exploited