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Message-ID: <fu34pmyckhgrjugxc2pqbj5afhtsf5jisnbpjghhkr7rfie3my@53a2ma3ekn6i>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:10:09 -0700
From: nightmare.yeah27@...ecat.org
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 04:42:33PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> How long will it take for corporations to accept that writing media
> codecs in C, C++, or any other memory-unsafe language is a
> fundamentally bad idea, and that it is better to rewrite the codecs
> in a safe language (such as Wuffs or Rust) than to try to secure the
> existing ones?
Wouldn't the low-level code have to ultimately depend on unsafe Rust
modules, or similar feature in other safe language?
--
Ian
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