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Because Rust is the popular thing in FOSS/Linux at the moment.
For memory safety, which is not unsafe rust
You say that. But the CVE is a memory corruption bug.
They’re not calling Rust unsafe. There is a memory safe mode and a memory unsafe mode in Rust, and this was built in unsafe Rust which allowed for the memory bug to be exploited