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Developers rely on the static safety guarantees of the Rust programming language to write secure and performant applications. However, Rust is frequently used to interoperate with other languages which allow design patterns that conflict…

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Rust is a modern programming language that guarantees memory safety and the absence of data races with a strong type system. We present RustyDL, a program logic for Rust, as a foundation for an auto-interactive, deductive verification tool…

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Rust is a young programming language gaining increased attention from software developers since it was introduced to the world by Mozilla in 2010. In this study, we attempt to answer several research questions. Does Rust deserve such…

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Rust is an emerging programming language that aims to prevent memory-safety bugs. However, the current design of Rust also brings side effects which may increase the risk of memory-safety issues. In particular, it employs OBRM…

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Rust is a programming language that combines memory safety and low-level control, providing C-like performance while guaranteeing the absence of undefined behaviors by default. Rust's growing popularity has prompted research on safe and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Aidan Z. H. Yang , Yoshiki Takashima , Brandon Paulsen , Josiah Dodds , Daniel Kroening

Rust is a memory-safe programming language that disallows undefined behavior. Its safety guarantees have been extensively examined by the community through empirical studies, which has led to its remarkable success. However, unsafe code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hui Xu

Rust relies on its unique ownership mechanism to ensure thread and memory safety. However, numerous potential security vulnerabilities persist in practical applications. New language features in Rust pose new challenges for vulnerability…

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Embedded software is used in safety-critical systems such as medical devices and autonomous vehicles, where software defects, including security vulnerabilities, have severe consequences. Most embedded codebases are developed in unsafe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Ayushi Sharma , Shashank Sharma , Santiago Torres-Arias , Aravind Machiry

Decompiling Rust binaries is challenging due to the language's rich type system, aggressive compiler optimizations, and widespread use of high-level abstractions. In this work, we conduct a benchmark-driven evaluation of decompilation…

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Bento provides a new approach to developing file systems, with safety and high-velocity development in mind. This is achieved by using Rust, a modern and memory-safe systems programming language, and by providing a framework to run a single…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Peter-Jan Gootzen , Animesh Trivedi

Pointers are a powerful, but dangerous feature provided by the C and C++ programming languages, and incorrect use of pointers is a common source of bugs and security vulnerabilities. Making secure software is crucial, as vulnerabilities…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Vlad-Alexandru Teodorescu , Dorel Lucanu

To provide flexibility and low-level interaction capabilities, the unsafe tag in Rust is essential in many projects, but undermines memory safety and introduces Undefined Behaviors (UBs) that reduce safety. Eliminating these UBs requires a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Renshuang Jiang , Pan Dong , Zhenling Duan , Yu Shi , Xiaoxiang Fang , Yan Ding , Jun Ma , Shuai Zhao , Zhe Jiang

The Rust programming language provides a powerful type system that checks linearity and borrowing, allowing code to safely manipulate memory without garbage collection and making Rust ideal for developing low-level, high-assurance systems.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Andrea Lattuada , Travis Hance , Chanhee Cho , Matthias Brun , Isitha Subasinghe , Yi Zhou , Jon Howell , Bryan Parno , Chris Hawblitzel

There has been a growing interest in translating C code to Rust due to Rust's robust memory and thread safety guarantees. Tools such as C2RUST enable syntax-guided transpilation from C to semantically equivalent Rust code. However, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yifei Gao , Chengpeng Wang , Pengxiang Huang , Xuwei Liu , Mingwei Zheng , Xiangyu Zhang

Memory safety vulnerabilities remain prevalent in today's software systems and one promising solution to mitigate them is to adopt memory-safe languages such as Rust. Due to legacy code written in memory unsafe C, there is strong motivation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Momoko Shiraishi , Yinzhi Cao , Takahiro Shinagawa

Although Rust primarily intends to be a safe programming language that excludes undefined behaviour, it provides its users with the escape hatch of unsafe Rust, allowing them to circumvent some of its strong compile-time checks. This…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Alex Le Blanc , Patrick Lam

Context: The integration of Rust into kernel development is a transformative endeavor aimed at enhancing system security and reliability by leveraging Rust's strong memory safety guarantees. Objective: We aim to find the current advances in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Shane K. Panter , Nasir U. Eisty

The Rust programming language is becoming increasingly popular among systems programmers due to its efficient performance and robust memory safety guarantees. Rust employs an ownership model to ensure this guarantee by allowing each value…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Vikram Nitin , Anne Mulhern , Sanjay Arora , Baishakhi Ray

Rust is a popular memory-safe systems programming language. In order to interact with hardware or call into non-Rust libraries, Rust provides \emph{unsafe} language features that shift responsibility for ensuring memory safety to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Merve Gülmez , Thomas Nyman , Christoph Baumann , Jan Tobias Mühlberg

Drivers are written in C or restricted subsets of C++ on all production-grade server, desktop, and mobile operating systems. They account for 66% of the code in Linux, but 39 out of 40 security bugs related to memory safety found in Linux…