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Memory safety bugs in Android have decreased significantly as old code matures and new code uses memory-safe languages.
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Posted by Andy Qin, Irene Ang, Kostya Serebryany, Evgenii Stepanov
Since 2018, Google has partnered with ARM and collaborated with many ecosystem partners (SoCs vendors, mobile phone OEMs, etc.) to develop Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) technology. … Continue reading MTE – The promising path forward for memory safety
Posted by Joel Galenson and Matthew Maurer, Android Team One of the main challenges of evaluating Rust for use within the Android platform was ensuring we could provide sufficient interoperability with our existing codebase. If Rust is to meet its goal… Continue reading Rust/C++ interop in the Android Platform
Mozilla has fixed three high-severity flaws with the release of Firefox 81 and Firefox ESR 78.3. Continue reading Firefox 81 Release Kills High-Severity Code-Execution Bugs
The release of Firefox 73 fixed high-severity memory safety bugs that could cause arbitrary code execution and missing bounds check that could enable memory corruption. Continue reading Mozilla Firefox 73 Browser Update Fixes High-Severity RCE Bugs
Buffer overflows, race conditions, use-after-free and more account for more than half of all vulnerabilities in the Android platform. Continue reading Google and ARM Tackle Android Bugs with Memory-Tagging