Popular open source projects such as Samba, the PHP, Perl, Tcl dynamic languages, and Amanda were all found to have dozens or hundreds of security exposures.
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Jaws
16 years 15 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago
Great Article
I think this is a great article and serves to expose, unlike commercial software, the way open source reacts to and fixes security concerns.
I wonder if you guys that voted this story down even read the article! I doubt it or you actually think this story is unimportant or irrelevant to the community .
The firm Coverity, hired by Homeland Security, is actually helping identify security exposures and the open source community is fixing them, to quote the article:
... A total of 7,826 open source project defects have been fixed through the Homeland Security review, or one every two hours since it was launched in 2006...
... Some open source projects have been quicker to respond to the Coverity scan results than others, noted Maxwell. About 116 of 180 projects being reviewed are making use of the Prevent SQS scans and eliminating the bugs...
If that's not helpful to the community, I don't know what is.