One caveat here is that many of the vulns used in the wild are in V8 and related to JIT code generation. Unfortunately rewriting in Rust can't really help with this.
Yes, that's a really good point. The vulnerabilities are across a number of components (skia, for example, is another big one) but memory safety in VMs is particularly tricky. Still, my personal, somewhat unfounded belief is that Rust has a lot of potential there.
staticassertion|3 years ago