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SoftwareOctober 14, 2026, 13:52

Two Rust borrow checker soundness bugs let unsafe-free code compile

Two soundness bugs in Rust's borrow checker, open since 2013 and 2014, allow code that violates aliasing rules to compile without unsafe blocks. The issues involve two-phase borrows with raw pointer reborrows and closure capture analysis; fixes will turn such code into hard compile errors, so crates should be audited with Miri.

Two Rust borrow checker soundness bugs let unsafe-free code compile
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