BADHOST OSTIF is disclosing the expanded details of the BadHost vulnerability in Starlette as slow uptake of updated versions of Starlette and discovery of more vulnerable live services has caused us serious concerns. I’d like to open by saying that the maintainer of Starlette is having a bad few weeks.…
Over the duration of multiple programs with funders, we’ve heard firsthand their needs. Executives know they have the budget and desire to fund security, but need help with how to start generating outcomes. To create and sustain open source security programs requires dedicated administration work, experience with the open source…
2024 was the 9th year of OSTIF, and what an exciting and groundbreaking year it was! Our annual report for 2024 starts with the OSTIF story then moves onto our impact, function, partnerships, funding, and future. We didn’t mince words here- it’s a quick read of less than five minutes.…
OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of Boost. Boost is an open source provider of free portable C++ source libraries. The project aims to establish a benchmark to provide reference implementations for future C++ standards. With the help of Shielder and Amazon Web Services, Boost…
OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of Bref. Bref is an open source project that allows developers to go serverless on AWS with PHP. With the help of Shielder and Amazon Web Services, this project has strengthened their foundation of transparency and easy customization for…
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…
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, 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…