Google’s decision to write new code into Android’s codebase in Rust, a memory-safe programming language, has resulted in a significant drop in memory safety vulnerabilities, despite old code (written in C/C++) not having been rewritten. The number of memory safety vulnerabilities found in the Android codebase per year (Source: Google) Android evolves, and has fewer memory safety vulnerabilities “The Android team began prioritizing transitioning new development to memory-safe languages around 2019. This decision was driven … More →

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