A MITRE CVE search for "Rust" in December 2022 returned recent vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of community-maintained libraries but also cargo itself, Rust's default dependency management and software build tool.

Perhaps one of Rust's most noteworthy features is its borrow checker and ability to track memory lifetimes, along with the unsafe keyword. The borrow checker's inability to reason about certain situations around the use of unsafe code can result in interesting and surprising vulnerabilities. CVE-2021-28032 is an example of such a vulnerability, in which the software library was able to generate multiple mutable references to the same memory location, violating the memory safety rules normally imposed on Rust code.

While this is only one example, other CVEs appeared for undefined behavior and other memory access errors in our basic CVE search. These existing CVEs seem to confirm our earlier observations on the limitations of the Rust security model. While it is hard to compare Rust-related CVEs to those of other languages and draw general conclusions about the safety of the language, we can infer that Rust's memory safety features alone are insufficient to eliminate the introduction of memory-related software vulnerabilities into the code at build time, even if the language and compiler do well at reducing them.

For example, Rudra discovered CVE-2021-25900, a buffer overflow in the smallvec library, as well as CVE-2021-25907, a double drop vulnerability (analogous to a double-free vulnerability due to Rust's use of default OS allocators) in the containers library.

Remember the super-secret super-secure phones that drug dealers started using until it was discovered that they were being run by the NSA, who was getting CC'd on every text?

The operation dubbed "Trojan Shield" in the US duped criminals across the globe into buying cellphones that had pre-loaded FBI software on them - and exposed Asian Triad gangs, Middle Eastern organized crime outfits, Latin American drug cartels and even biker crews to police investigators.

Hardened encrypted devices usually provide an impenetrable shield against law enforcement surveillance and detection. The supreme irony here is that the very devices that these criminals were using to hide from law enforcement were actually beacons for law enforcement.

Users thought their messages on the app were encrypted and hidden from law enforcement scrutiny - but every message sent on the platform was also delivered to investigators.

This sophisticated international criminal underworld takedown that thwarted dozens of murders, netted a mountain of drugs and led to more than 800 arrests, authorities said.

It has netted some 8 tons of cocaine, 2 tons of amphetamine, 55 luxury cars, 250 guns and more than 20 tons of marijuana and hash after raids in countries across the globe, Jean-Philippe Lecouffe, deputy director of operations at Europol, said at a press conference in the Netherlands on Tuesday.

The messages gave investigators in Europe, the US and Australia a behind-the-scenes look as criminals plotted contract killings, drug trafficking and robberies.

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