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Type

Security review

Client

Linux Foundation

Date

2022-02

Domain

Supply Chain

Effort

4 wks

Section

Cloud-Native Reviews

Trail of Bits's security review of The Linux Foundation (Feb 2022) identified 9 issues: 3 low, 4 informational, and 2 undetermined.

Findings · 9

  1. 1 Various unhandled errors Undetermined
  2. 2 The use of time.After() in select statements can lead to memory leaks Low
  3. 3 Use of string.Contains instead of string.HasPrefix to check for prefixes Undetermined
  4. 4 Risk of resource exhaustion due to the use of defer inside a loop Informational
  5. 5 Lack of maximum request and response body constraint Informational
  6. 6 Potential goroutine leak in Kubernetes port-forwarding initialization logic Informational
  7. 7 Risk of log injection in TAP service API Low
  8. 8 TLS configuration does not enforce minimum TLS version Low
  9. 9 Nil dereferences in the webhook server Informational

Findings extracted from the published report PDF. See the full report below for details and remediation.

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