OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of Hickory DNS. Hickory DNS is an open source Rust based DNS client, server, and resolver. With the help of X41 D-Sec and Prossimo, this project can continue to provide users with a safe and secure DNS server and…
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 Backstage. Backstage is an open source framework for developer portals. With the help of X41D-Sec and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), this project can continue to provide quick and secure development environments. Audit Process: This audit was…
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…