How Open Source Projects Handle Security Vulnerability Disclosure

Episode 88 of Open Source with Fexingo digs into the delicate art of security vulnerability disclosure in open source projects. Lucas and Luna walk through the process behind the recent critical patch in the Curl project — how a memory safety bug in the HTTP/3 stack was privately reported, triaged, and publicly released within a 90-day window. They break down the roles of the distros list, the CVE numbering process, and the tension between full transparency and responsible disclosure. Luna challenges whether the current embargo model favors big corporations over individual maintainers, and Lucas looks ahead to automated patch verification tools like Stacked Patches. A focused 10-minute conversation on what happens when someone finds a hole in the code we all depend on.

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