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sudo-rs Affected By Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - Impacting Ubuntu 25.10 (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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The Ubuntu 25.10 transition to using some Rust system utilities continues proving quite rocky. Beyond some early performance issues with Rust Coreutils, breakage for some executables, and broken unattended upgrades due to a Rust Coreutils bug, it's also sudo-rs now causing Ubuntu developers some headaches. There are two moderate security issues affecting sudo-rs, the Rust version of sudo being used by Ubuntu 25.10.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

b-b-b-but Rust is inherently safe!

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 14 points 1 week ago

Yeah, if you hash your passwords with unsalted md5 it's much more secure in Rust than PHP!