OSTIF is pleased to announce the completion of a security audit of the open source project RustVMM in collaboration with X-41 D-Sec GmbH, with funding by Amazon Web Services. The project offers crates to build customized Virtual Machine Monitors (thus, VMM), which can be vulnerable to malicious actors through its…
OSTIF and X41-Dsec collaborated with OpenSearch on a security audit on v. 2.8.0 of the open source search engine. As a search engine, this project handles sensitive data and therefore security is of utmost importance to project users, maintainers, and community. The main objective of this security audit was to…
Envoy, the open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications, worked with OSTIF and X41 D-Sec to help improve the project’s security posture. The multi-phased engagement, sponsored by Google, focused first on the triaging and closing of bugs, then upon further improving the core fuzzers that continually monitor…
OSTIF and X41 are excited to announce the completion of our security audit of libjpeg-turbo! X-41 DSec and OSTIF collaborated in May of 2023 on a source code audit of libjpeg-turbo, the accelerated JPEG image decoding software. The audit’s emphasis was on reviewing input validation, memory management practices, and analysis…
OSTIF is proud to announce the publication of our fourteenth completed audit this year! In association with X41 D-Sec and go-tuf, OSTIF publishes another FOSS security audit after weeks of hard work and dedication. Go-tuf is used to securely run software update systems in Go as part of The Update…
In collaboration with X41 and in-toto, OSTIF is pleased to announce the publication of our audit of in-toto’s source code. In-toto, which has implementations in Python and Go, is a framework software for supply chain security. Integrating security and transparency through the entire process of application, in-toto’s holistic view of…
OSTIF, X41, and c-ares coordinated on a security audit of c-ares’s source code in spring of 2023. C-ares is a library written in C for asynchronous DNS requests, which runs on such applications as Microsoft Windows, Netware, and Android. It was developed at MIT, when a group expanded upon the…
It’s our privilege to announce that OSTIF’s sixth security audit of 2023 is with libcap! This was only possible with the fantastic work of X41 D-Sec and generous support of AWS. Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e draft 15 capabilities. The 26 year old project is maintained…
OSTIF is pleased to announce that another audit has reached publication! A security audit of simplejson’s source code was conducted in collaboration with X41. Found during the audit process were one medium and two low severity issues, as well as nine more informational issues. In addition, custom differential fuzzing harnesses…
Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is thrilled to report the results of another security audit. Python-TUF is a reference implementation written in Python for The Update Framework (TUF); a framework for secure content delivery and updates. The primary result of the work is one medium and four low-severity issues. Details…