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Is there a Rust app that is as complete, as widely-used, as OpenSSH? Or any other C or C++ app he's throwing shade at?

Unoriginal, and not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Really dumb thinly-veiled attempt at a rust-shilling title IMO, a much better headline would have been what's right at the top of the CVE link:

RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems

To me this is WAY more alarming to hear and should have more attention brought to it right away.

musl explicitly reported themselves as not affected: https://fosstodon.org/@musl/112711796005712271/embed

The title is a reference to the Onion's mass shootings articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This%2C%2...

That may be, but the author of that blog is well-known for being a huge rust supporter and aggressive advocate, including being quite involved in a lot of the recent NixOS drama, so it's not surprising they chose a rather controversial headline.

As much as I am a fan of this point of view, it’s important to remember that correlation is not causation. Flipping causation from the article makes sense too: Most of the shared bits of infrastructure code is C so, if there is a bug in shared infrastructure code, it’s more likely to be in C.