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LAMP Lights the OSS Security Way

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bashing-in-the-heads-of-bugs dept.

Kevin Young wrote to mention a ZDNet article which goes into some detail on new results from a Department of Homeland security initiative. It's called the 'Open Source Hardening Project', and (funded to the tune of $1.24 Million) the goals of the initiative are to use a commercial tool for source code analysis to buck up the security base of many OSS projects. LAMP (the conglomeration of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python) was a 'winner' in the eyes of the project. From the article: "In the analysis, more than 17.5 million lines of code from 32 open-source projects were scanned. On average, 0.434 bugs per 1,000 lines of code were found, Coverity said. The LAMP stack, however, 'showed significantly better software quality," with an average of 0.29 defects per 1,000 lines of code, the technology company said.'"

2 of 178 comments (clear)

  1. Do slashdot editors even read the site? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah, not really.

  2. Re:Fucking LAMP. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, but stick with LAMP though, because LAPP makes me think LAPPdance... Alot of security holes to attack! ;)