• Stenberg: The pressure

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Wed May 27 06:40:09 2026
    Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg writes about
    the stress of keeping up with the current flood of security reports.

    This is a never-before seen or experienced pressure on the curl
    project and its security team members. An avalanche of high
    priority work that trumps all other things in the project that is
    primarily mental because we certainly could ignore them all if we
    wanted, but we feel a responsibility, we have a conscience and we
    are proud about our work. We feel obliged to fix security problems
    in the software we have helped shipped to every device on the
    globe. This is personal to us.

    With about half the release cycle left until the pending release
    ships, we already have twelve confirmed vulnerabilities
    meaning twelve pending CVE announcements. That's a new project
    record and it also means we will reach thirty published CVEs
    in 2026 even before half the calendar year has passed. The
    projected total amount of curl CVEs published through the whole
    year is therefore at least double this number!

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1074449/
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