Google Rewrites Critical C Dependencies to Rust Using AI and Differential Fuzzin
InfoQ Homepage News Google Rewrites Critical C Dependencies to Rust Using AI and Differential Fuzzing Development InfoQ Certified AI-Assisted Engineering Program (online, Oct 19): Build the harness that holds. The initiative focused on giflib, an image-processing library with about 3,000 lines of code that often decodes untrusted user input without sandboxing. By delivering an ABI-compatible drop-in library written in Rust, the team was able to decommission process isolation sandboxes, preserve latency neutrality, and neutralise an unpatched heap write zero-day prior to its public cataloguing as CVE-2026-26740.
- ▪InfoQ Homepage News Google Rewrites Critical C Dependencies to Rust Using AI and Differential Fuzzing Development InfoQ Certified AI-Assisted Engineering Program (online, Oct 19): Build the harness that holds.
- ▪The initiative focused on giflib, an image-processing library with about 3,000 lines of code that often decodes untrusted user input without sandboxing.
- ▪By delivering an ABI-compatible drop-in library written in Rust, the team was able to decommission process isolation sandboxes, preserve latency neutrality, and neutralise an unpatched heap write zero-day prior to its public cataloguing as
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| Canonical URL | https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/c-rust-rewrite/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:36:51 +0000 |
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