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>CVE-2025-32463

Looks like a logic bug to me? So rust wouldn't have helped.

Those are exactly the kind of bugs you might introduce when you do a rewrite.

One great way you can make things more secure is by reducing attack surface. sudo is huge and old, and has tons of functionality that almost no one uses (like --chroot). A from-scratch rewrite with a focus on the 5% of features that 99% of users use means less code to test and audit. Also a newer codebase that hasn't grown and mutated over the course of 35 years is going to be a lot more focused and easier to reason about.

Do you mean doas ?

doas is too much of a difference from sudo. For instance, it uses a completely different syntax for its config.

sudo-rs is designed to be a drop-in replacement for maybr 95-99% of people who have been using sudo.

(I do use doas on my own systems though)

> Sudo is [...] old.

This is a take I never understood. I get being huge, but old? Software doesn't age, when it is older it tends to have less bugs, not more.

A good type system can prevent all sorts of logic bugs

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