Hello,
I think I have to add my 5 cents. There are commercial (ironically proprietary) products on the market which analyze the software and build a list of open source dependencies.
Then, based on this list of open source dependencies, they build a list of vulnerabilities which might be presented in the analyzed software.
Example of such tool: https://www.blackducksoftware.com/solutions/application-security (Check "Manage Open Source vulnerabilities")
2017-07-26 23:51 GMT+03:00 Hugo Roy hugo@fsfe.org:
Thank you Bastien, this is interesting and helpful.
Does anyone has interesting articles about recent vulnerabilities discovered in free software?
Best, Hugo
↪ Bastien Guerry / juillet 26, 2017 15:50:
Hi Hugo,
Hugo Roy hugo@fsfe.org writes:
Any case studies on how the world dealt to react quickly and update
systems in reponse to Heartbleed for instance?
I remember blackduck had some reports comparing FLOSS/non-FLOSS with respect to their security, I found this, but I’m sure there are more detailed documents:
https://info.blackducksoftware.com/rs/872-OLS-526/images/OSS AReportFINAL.pdf
Also, a bit older, but with more data: http://go.coverity.com/rs/157-LQW-289/images/2014-Coverity-S can-Report.pdf
I’m not a specialist at all, and all these sources must be read with a grain of salt, because authors are often not neutral.
HTH,
-- Bastien
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