| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]>

| Rust does a few things that are relevant (I think -- I've not actually 
| used Rust):

| - unfortunately, I think that Rust only catches integer overflow in
|   debug mode.  That's a mistake, but it's probably because checking is
|   considered too expensive.
|   
<http://huonw.github.io/blog/2016/04/myths-and-legends-about-integer-overflow-in-rust/>

A very recent CVE against the Linux kernel exploits integer overflow
  CVE-2019-11477: SACK Panic (Linux >= 2.6.29)
  
<https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-001.md>
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