Fifty-two percent of 172 widely deployed critical open-source projects had memory-unsafe code or were not written in programming languages that curb memory-related errors, according to BleepingComputer. Memory-unsafe languages were also used in 55% of total lines of code across all of the examined open-source projects, with Linux having the largest unsafe code ratio of 95%, a report from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, and the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre.

Source: SC Magazine