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The rabbit hole of unsafe Rust bugs – notgull – The world's number one source of notgull (notgull.net)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I thought there was a type of bug called a notgull at first but that's the author's handle. The bugs are a use-after-free and an invalid pointer that was wrong due to an unsound calculation in non-unsafe code.

This isn't meant as a saved you a click summary; the article's worth the read!