The bug depended on iterating through every item in a hashtable and putting it into a new hashtable AND the new hashtable had to not start with a known capacity. That's a pretty specific edge case, IMO. Plus it's been addressed.

"rumored memory issues" just sounds like FUD.

Memory issues? And a lot of implementations of hash functions turn quadratic. I seem to remember php having quadratic hash table performance. And the bug in rust's code required a very specific usage pattern.

edit: hash table vuln article (2011): http://www.securityweek.com/hash-table-collision-attacks-cou...

> After the quadratic hashes

Reference: http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/post/153545455987/ru...

(bugs happen, fix is in the queue, life goes on)

> rumored memory issues

Rumors are just rumors. If you (or anyone else) has more than FUD here, please email https://www.rust-lang.org/security.html .

We've banned this serial troll, of course, but the immune response from the community was particularly healthy here.