Speykious/cve-rs

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5420 stars · 113 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

cve-rs is a joke/educational Rust crate that reproduces classic memory vulnerabilities (use-after-free, buffer overflow, segfault) using only safe Rust, exploiting known compiler soundness holes. It also provides safe-code reimplementations of std::mem::transmute and null references.

Use cases

• demonstrate Rust soundness bugs in safe code
• test whether a Rust toolchain or linter catches memory unsafety without unsafe blocks
• reproduce segfaults and buffer overflows in a memory-safe Rust program
• teach memory safety concepts with real crashing examples
• reimplement transmute without unsafe
• run memory-unsafe behavior in WASM from safe Rust

When to choose

• you want to demo or test Rust compiler soundness holes
• you need a deliberately crashing safe-Rust program for education or CI fuzzing of tools
• you want a novelty example of memory corruption without unsafe code

When to avoid

• you need real security tooling or vulnerability scanning
• you want stable, production-ready dependencies
• you expect actual CVEs or exploit primitives for penetration testing

Facets

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security testing developer-tools security programming-languages developer-tools testing rust cross-platform wasm cli memory-safety soundness rust segfault use-after-free buffer-overflow novelty educational

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