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.

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Cant tell you how many times Ive heard about curl getting re-written. Same deal.

    • otacon239@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 hours ago

      Surely a direct stream from the internet straight onto host hardware can’t be exploited in any way. All you gotta do is put the stream in a file. How hard could it be? (/s)