The Fatty Talks by Adam Hirsch

Within the past several weeks Google has not only been improving their stock prices, they’re also been improving their image in regards to several fields (Environment, Design, Webmaster Tools, etc). In this case, Google is openly open about encouraging their employees to help out in the open source community. Perhaps another sign and further proof that the gPhone is going to be open source mobile software…

Google encourages its employees to contribute back to the open source community, and there is no exception in Google’s Security Team. Let’s look at some interesting open source vulnerabilities that were located and fixed by members of Google’s Security team. It is interesting to classify and aggregate the code flaws leading to the vulnerabilities, to see if any particular type of flaw is more prevalent.

For the full story and examples of some bugs fixed, check out: Auditing open source software (via Google Online Security Blog)