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.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Gonna say what I said so many times, and even a few times in this comment section.

    ALL.software.has.bugs.

    The language doesn’t matter. AI doesn’t matter. Testing doesn’t matter. Every single piece of software will be vulnerable to something eventually.

    Staying on top of it is the best you can do.