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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 28 March 2007 | |
  
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Over 6000 defects have been fixed since June 2006. Among the newly added projects are zlib (compression software widely used in open source and commercial applications) and FreeRADIUS (a free implementation of RADIUS authentication). Other projects being scanned include Amanda, emacs, Postfix, Python and tcl. Details of defects found by Coverity are only available to project members. Commercial users of Coverity's tools include McAfee, NASA, Palm and Symantec. Stanford University and Symantec share in the $US 1.24 million Department of Homeland Security open source vulnerability research contract.{moscomment} |
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