Ubuntu Completes Coreutils Migration to Rust
Canonical has ported the last utilities cp, mv, and rm to uutils coreutils, a Rust implementation of GNU Core Utilities. The migration was completed for Ubuntu 26.10 after a Zellic audit found 113 issues, 44 of which received CVEs.
- cp, mv, and rm ported to uutils coreutils in Ubuntu 26.10
- Zellic audit found 113 issues, 44 received CVEs
- GNU versions can be restored via coreutils-from-gnu package
- Next target is ntpd-rs, transition planned for Ubuntu 27.04
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