Comment by roblabla

There has actually been a few crashes in the core TCP/IP stack of both Linux and Windows in the last 5 years, though I'm not sure any of them were due to memory safety (most were logic bugs as far as I can tell). That said, rust's approach to error handling could help avoid crashes here as well.

However, we have seen *many* memory-safety crashes in the drivers to talk to network interfaces. Those really are full of security vulnerabilities. The most prominent recent one was broadcom's wifi driver having heap buffer overflows allowing remote code execution by anyone within wifi range in 2019[0].

[0]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/broadcom-wifi...