How the community powers GitHub Advanced Security with CodeQL queries
The GitHub Security Lab’s CodeQL bounty program fuels GitHub Advanced Security with queries written by the open source community.
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How to leverage security frameworks and libraries for secure code
In this post, I’ll discuss how to apply OWASP Proactive Control C2: Leverage security frameworks and libraries.
How to define security requirements for your OSS project
Defining your security requirements is the most important proactive control you can implement for your project. Here’s how.
Write more secure code with the OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls
This lesser-known OWASP project aims to help developers prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced in the first place.
Blue-teaming for Exiv2: how to squash bugs by enrolling in OSS-Fuzz
OSS-Fuzz is Google’s awesome fuzzing service for open source projects. GitHub Security Lab’s @kevinbackhouse describes enrolling a project.
Blue-teaming for Exiv2: adding custom CodeQL queries to code scanning
The Exiv2 team tightened our security by enabling GitHub’s code scanning feature and adding custom queries tailored to the Exiv2 code base.
Blue-teaming for Exiv2: three rules of bug fixing for better OSS security
When you’re fixing a bug, especially a security vulnerability, you should add a regression test, fix the bug, and find & fix variants.
Blue-teaming for Exiv2: creating a security advisory process
This blog post is the first in a series about hardening the security of the Exiv2 project. My goal is to share tips that will help you harden the security of your own project.
An analysis on developer-security researcher interactions in the vulnerability disclosure process
We put out a call to open source developers and security researchers to talk about the security vulnerability disclosure process. Here’s what we found.
Privilege escalation with polkit: How to get root on Linux with a seven-year-old bug
polkit is a system service installed by default on many Linux distributions. It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit. As a member of GitHub Security Lab, my job is to help improve the security of open source software by finding and reporting vulnerabilities. A few weeks ago, I found a privilege escalation vulnerability in polkit.