Stenberg: The pressure
Daniel Stenberg discusses the unprecedented pressure faced by the curl project due to a surge in security reports. The team feels a strong sense of responsibility to address these vulnerabilities, which they view as personal. With twelve confirmed vulnerabilities already, the project is on track to set a new record for published CVEs this year.
- ▪The curl project is experiencing an unprecedented influx of security reports.
- ▪There are currently twelve confirmed vulnerabilities ahead of the next release.
- ▪The team anticipates reaching at least thirty published CVEs by 2026.
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Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg writes about the stress of keeping up with the current flood of security reports. This is a never-before seen or experienced pressure on the curl project and its security team members. An avalanche of high priority work that trumps all other things in the project that is primarily mental because we certainly could ignore them all if we wanted, but we feel a responsibility, we have a conscience and we are proud about our work. We feel obliged to fix security problems in the software we have helped shipped to every device on the globe. This is personal to us. With about half the release cycle left until the pending release ships, we already have twelve confirmed vulnerabilities meaning twelve pending CVE announcements.
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