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[20080109] Article: PHP, Perl and Python pass Homeland Security test
In 2006, the US Department of Homeland Security joined up with Coverity to scan Open Source software for security problems, and provide the results to the projects for fixing. Here's an intermediate(?) status report of the project now: ``Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.''

There were three "rungs" of projects, with eleven being rated as "bug free" in "rung 2": Amanda, NTP, OpenPAM, OpenVPN, Overdose, Perl, PHP, Postfix, Python, Samba, and TCL. Rung 1 now includes 86 projects. Rung 0, the lowest level, currently lists 173 projects.

NetBSD is part of the scans, and it currently ranks in "rung 1", which currently contains 86 projects. NetBSD shows 1.316 fixed bugs, 196 verified bugs and 1405 uninspected bugs in 4.7mio lines of code, resulting in an average of 0.335 bugs per 1000 lines of code.

Rung 0, the "worst" category currently lists 173 projects, so NetBSD is about average - but there's always room to improve!

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[20070504] Coverity and pkgsrc
I've found this interesting report about Coverity and pkgsrc via the NetBSD News Beat and the DragonFly BSD Digest, telling that ``[...] Coverity has chosen to use pkgsrc (www.pkgsrc.org) as a framework for building and scanning software. Pkgsrc makes it easier for anyone, including Coverity, to build free software.''

There's also another interesting part that hints that pkgsrc could gain more users by persuing that user community: ``It happens that pkgsrc is running a little behind and still has 0.63 as its basis. I will try to get a more recent version in pkgsrc (in particular because new code is more likely to contain error, ego notwithstanding), but from looking at the scan, it's clear many of these bugs remain in the current codebase.''

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[20070129] Coverity Names NetBSD Developer David Maxwell as Open Source Strategist
From the digg.com announcement, refering to a full PRnewsWire release: ``Coverity Names David Maxwell as Open Source Strategist - NetBSD developer David Maxwell (david@netbsd.org) is now working for Coverity. Coverity provides its static-analysis development tool 'Prevent' at no cost to open source projects. The announcement hints at the expansion of the Scan site (http://scan.coverity.com/) this year.''

Coverity is cooperating with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to improve security in open source programs for some time now. See the available scan results.

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[20060316] NetBSD now included in Coverity code scans (Updated)
Coverity is a tool to do static code analysis, and they have recently announced to offer their service for open source projects, in cooperation with the US Department of Homeland Security.

After missing the first round, NetBSD is now included in the latest scans. With more than 5 million lines of code one of the biggest projects, and with 0.69 defects per thousand lines of code not the worst, but there's definitely a lot of room for improvement.

Stop slacking, send patches!

Update for those wondering about that number of 5 millions: apparently NetBSD 3.0's kernel is like 4.2million lines of code, NetBSD-current's kernel is like 4.6 million and full NetBSD-current (userland + kernel, no X) is 26 million lines. -current xsrc is another 15 million. That's a whopping 40 million LoC in NetBSD!

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[20050224] Finding NetBSD Kernel bugs with Coverity
From the website, ``Coverity automates the detection of software defects and security vulnerabilities for complex software at compile time. With Coverity, development teams identify critical software problems that could have a catastrophic impact.'' Ted Unangst from Coverity has run the tool on the NetBSD kernel source, and has discovered a number of problems that I find quite impressing, including using freed ressources, ressource leaks and *gosh* an in-kernel buffer overflow.

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