Class Fixes; Or, You Become the Rust Compiler
RustConf 2019 - Class Fixes; Or, You Become the Rust Compiler by Isobel Redelmeier
What’s a “class fix”? Well, a class break is a is a security term for a type of vulnerability that breaks not just a single instance (e.g., a single database), but instead a whole category of systems (e.g., all MySQL databases). Let’s think of class fixes, then, as the happy opposite: one solution that addresses a whole slew of problems - much like Rust does by enforcing code correctness so …