Binary Code Verification In Open-Source Software. Open-source companies or final users generally obtain code from two sources: open-source repositories and open-source vendors.

Among other things, this includes the ability to trace code from source to binary packages across both platforms, single sign-on support and unified project structures, including role mapping.

Scrubbing tokens from source code is not enough, as shown by the publishing of a Python Software Foundation access token with administrator privileges to a container image on Docker Hub.

These tools review source code (or in Veracode’s case, binary code) line by line to detect security vulnerabilities and provide advice on how to remediate problems they find – ideally before ...

The partnership sees CodeSecure’s CodeSentry Binary Composition Analysis capabilities integrated into FOSSA’s software supply chain analysis and software bill of materials management platform.

The only way that's likely to happen is if the bug-fixing was performed directly on the program binary itself without reference to the source code. This is a difficult task to pull off.

Such efforts to avoid not ruining the EQNEDT32.EXE binary are time-consuming, and no sane developer would have taken this route if he still had access to the source code.

Until now. On December 29, the Gentoo team announced they were making binary packages available for installation on the OS. That means there'll be software that can be installed, via the Portage ...