Rudra: Finding Memory Safety Bugs in Rust at the Ecosystem Scale

[greghn]

https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/10/31/rudra-finding-memory-safety-bugs-in-rust-at-the-ecosystem-scale.html

[fulafel]

Paper PDF link: https://www.micahlerner.com/assets/papers/rudra.pdf

[katkatkatkatket]

If something like this existed for C, then we wouldn't need to learn a new language!

[pjmlp → katkatkatkatket]

Plenty of stuff exists, the first one being lint, introduced in 1979.

The problem with C isn't lack of tooling trying to fix it.

[fulafel → katkatkatkatket]

Here's one C/C++ targeting tool they cite that is kind of similar: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~dstefan/pubs/brown:2020:sys.pdf

But both tools only catch a subset of stuff, so they're not final cures for safety bugs.