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Josh and Kurt talk about a blog post about frozen kernels being more secure. We cover some of the history and how a frozen kernel works and discuss why they would be less secure. A frozen kernel is from when things worked very differently. What sort of changes will we see in the future? https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_430_Frozen_kernel_security.mp3 Show Notes Kurt’s strange coffee Why a ‘frozen’ distribution Linux kernel isn’t the safest choice for security

Josh and Kurt talk about some of the efforts to measure and understand open source. There are projects like the OpenSSF Scorecard. We want to measure open source for some idea of quality. Is AI generated code better than a random open source project found on GitHub? Can we track the countries contributors are from? These are all interesting problems that everyone will have to deal with soon. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_384_Whats_next_for_open_source.mp3 Show Notes OpenSSF Scorecard

Josh and Kurt talk about the notion that open source is somehow dying. What’s actually happening is corporate open source is changing, which some are trying to deform into something wrong with open source. Open source is doing great, probably better than ever. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_383_Is_open_source_dying.mp3 Show Notes Open Source isn’t sustainable anymore VORON Design Video of the first lathe Plane Crazy Evernote layoffs

Josh and Kurt talk about Red Hat closing up the RHEL source code. Kurt and Josh both worked at Red Hat in the past. This isn’t a show that bashes Red Hat, and it’s not a show praising them. We take an honest look at the past, present, and future of Linux. There’s a lot to talk about in this one. TL;DR, Red Hat was the chosen on, and we all feel betrayed. ...

Josh and Kurt talk about a newly rediscovered old python vulnerability. It raises a lot of questions about what was OK in 2007 vs what’s OK in 2022. The issue is very complicated and has a wild story surrounding it. There is no reason to not fix this in 2022. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_344_Python_tarfile_2022_is_nothing_like_2007.mp3 Show Notes CVE-2007-4559 Red Hat Bug Register story Response from upstream Upstream patch ZippSlip Current upstream bug CSURF

Josh and Kurt talk about CVSSv3 and how it’s broken. We started with a blog post to explain why the NVD CVSS scores are so wrong, and we ended up researching CVSSv3 and found out it’s far more broken than any of us expected in ways we didn’t expect. NVD isn’t broken, CVSSv3 is. How did we get here? Are there any options that work today? Where should we go next? ...