In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, a Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils, with most identified during an external audit ahead of the 26.04 LTS release. Despite being written by experienced developers, none of the bugs were caught by Rust's borrow checker, linters, or cargo audit, revealing gaps in Rust's safety guarantees for systems programming.
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In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, a Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils, with most identified during an external audit ahead of the 26.04 LTS release. Despite being written by experienced developers, none of the bugs were caught by Rust's borrow checker, linters, or cargo audit, revealing gaps in Rust's safety guarantees for systems programming.