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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In context: Common memory safety bugs can lead to dangerous security vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows, uninitialized memory, type confusion, and use-after-free conditions. Attackers can ...

Google's Chrome team is looking at heap scanning to reduce memory-related security flaws in Chrome's C++ codebase, but the technique creates a toll on memory – except when newer Arm hardware is used.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently issued guidance on how to transition to memory-safe programming languages to reduce software vulnerabilities. As far back as 1996, when ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published research looking into 172 key open-source projects and whether they are susceptible to memory flaws. The report, cosigned ...