OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of the Apache Commons libraries IO, Lang, and Codec. Apache Commons libraries are open source extensions to the Java Development Kit (JDK). With the help of Ada Logics and Amazon Web Services, these three libraries will healthily continue to support…
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…
In collaboration with Amazon Web Services and the Eclipse Foundation, OSTIF is excited to release our Independent Security Audit Impact Report for 2023! Over the past year, OSTIF worked with 10 projects to complete third-party security audits with funding supplied by AWS and the EF. The engagement oversaw 24 new…
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…
OSTIF is pleased to announce that another audit has reached publication! A security audit of simplejson’s source code was conducted in collaboration with X41. Found during the audit process were one medium and two low severity issues, as well as nine more informational issues. In addition, custom differential fuzzing harnesses…
Amazon Web Services Supports Open Source Technology Improvement Fund Amir Montazery, Managing Director, Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc (OSTIF) The OSTIF team is absolutely thrilled to announce that we’ve reached an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide $500,000 in funding. The funding from AWS will help OSTIF…