With the financial support of Amazon Web Services, sudo and su are rewritten in the Rust programming language to increase memory safety to further enhance Linux security/open-source.
“Because it's written in C, sudo has faced a lot vulnerabilities related to memory security issues", according with a publication which announces the project:
“It's important to protect our most critical software, especially from memory security vulnerabilities. It is hard to imagine software that is more critical than sudo and su”.
This work is carried out by a joint team from Ferrous Systems and Tweede Golf with the generous support of Amazon Web Services. The work plan you can it see here. The repository on GitHub is here.