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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published research looking into 172 key open-source projects and whether they are susceptible to memory flaws. The report, cosigned ...

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A comprehensive new study has unearthed fresh details on the extensive and troubling use of memory-unsafe code in major open source software (OSS) projects. However, the chances that fresh insight on ...