In its latest study, the Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative discovered just how prevalent open-source components are in all software and their shared problems and vulnerabilities. …read more Source:: Linux
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Software applications have on average 24 vulnerabilities inherited from buggy components
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•By Lucian Constantin Many commercial software companies and enterprise in-house developers are churning out applications that are insecure by design due to the rapid and often uncontrolled use of open-source components. Even worse, these …read more Source:: OpenSource
Ubuntu: 2468-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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•Software Description: – linux: Linux kernel Details: A null pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the the Linux kernel’s SCTP implementation when ASCONF is used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service via a malformed INIT chunk. Source: Tech