Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/high-severity-guest-vm-escape-is-1-of-2-linux-vulnerabilities-to-surface-this-week/

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Marija@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 41d

Bug bounties continue paying off.

sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 44d (5 replies)

Can't wait to see the day where Linux Kernel is 100% written in Rust

vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 6 pts · 43d (3 replies)

And if you think that migration to Rust will magically remove all bugs and vulnerabilities, you haven't been writing software for very long.

Muehe@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 43d

Nobody said it would? But both of these vulnerabilities were use-after-free, so using Rust would probably have helped here (you know if Rust had been a thing back when they were introduced).

sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 43d (1 reply)

It would solve this kind of bugs for sure

vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 5 pts · 43d

... and replace them with a whole new class of bugs.

Source: I've been writing software since 1982.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 43d

Something else will come along with an entourage of fanboys pushing for it to be the next porting language.

It'll be great; until the next one comes along.

By then the kernel will be so slow that Linux will die.