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Numerous security exposures have been discovered in Samba, the PHP, Perl, and other popular open source projects, according to a review by the Department of Homeland Security. Like its commercial equivalent, open source code typically includes one security hole for every 1,000 lines of code. Some projects, such as Samba, have fixed the majority of the vulnerabilities identified by the Homeland Security review. Other projects, such as FreeBSD and Firebird, have been slow to respond to the scans' findings. Overall, roughly 116 of the 180 projects being examined are utilizing the scans and are correcting their security defects. Samba and Linux, along with some other projects, were found to have a substantially lower rate of defects than average, according to David Maxwell of Coverity, manufacturer of the source code checking system used in the review. Since the review was launched in 2006, a total of 7,826 open source project vulnerabilities have been resolved.
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