Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL, which had the same ultimate root cause as recent XZUtils backdoor incident
(medium.com)
from otto@programming.dev to security@lemmy.ml on 07 Apr 2024 20:56
https://programming.dev/post/12487684
from otto@programming.dev to security@lemmy.ml on 07 Apr 2024 20:56
https://programming.dev/post/12487684
The XZ Utils backdoor, discovered last week, and the Heartbleed security vulnerability ten years ago, share the same ultimate root cause. Both of them, and in fact all critical infrastructure open source projects, should be fixed with the same solution: ensure baseline funding for proper open source maintenance.
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That’s a hell of a stretch of same root cause. Funding wouldn’t prevent bad actors from slipping in vulnerabilities into commits.