Over a six-year period, Google has disclosed that the percentage of memory-safe vulnerabilities found in Android has decreased from 76% to 24% due to the company’s shift to memory-safe languages like Rust as part of its secure-by-design approach.
According to the tech giant, concentrating on safe coding for new features makes the changeover more scalable and economical while also lowering the overall security risk of a codebase.
According to a piece shared with The Hacker News by Google’s Jeff Vander Stoep and Alex Rebert, after a given amount of time, new memory unsafe work slows down and new memory-safe development takes over, which eventually results in a decline in memory safety vulnerabilities read more about Google’s Shift to Rust Programming Cuts Android Memory Vulnerabilities by 52%.
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