Proliferation of vulnerable open source components creates growing risk | Linux Today

Proliferation of vulnerable open source components creates growing risk

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Oct 19, 2016

Analysis revealed the growing risk caused by the proliferation of vulnerable open source components. Veracode found that a single popular component with a critical vulnerability spread to more than 80,000 other software components, which were in turn then used in the development of potentially millions of software programs. Approximately 97 percent of Java applications contained at least one component with a known vulnerability.

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