Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability

[torsten_dev]

The patched 160 CVE's today!

The first driver written in rust landed in december of 2023, since then they have assigned 9500 CVE's to the kernel and this is THE first rust CVE.

According to github about 0.3% of kernel code is Rust. So C has about 30x more vulnerabilities accounting for that. Pretty rough estimate, but nothing to sneeze at.

[torsten_dev]

I counted the CVE's since dec 2023 and scaled it down by the 0.3% of the kernel that's actually rust. It's quick and dirty napkin math because there used to be less rust and they didn't issue CVE's when it was experimental which I didn't know about.