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Comment by dspillett

7 months ago

Rust born processes are memory-safe in terms of avoiding corruption of their heaps & stacks by C-like problems like rogue pointers and use-after-free, but they are still subject to OOM conditions, or running out of other storage, so can easily be killed by a zip-bomb if not coded in an appropriately defensive manner.

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