Hi all, I was wondering what other people do to keep track of scanning Julia code for security vulnerabilities and if any vulnerabilities get reported to CVE. Thanks, Philip

I don’t think there are many people that track vulnerabilities in Julia packages, and if they do, they probably do it by manually auditing/fuzz testing packages they use.

Thanks. That was kind of my impression too, so I’d also be interested in what kind of fuzz testing others do for Julia.

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I think the best way to accomplish the same goal of determining which packages have the potential to cause a security incident, is to setup fuzz testing and mutation testing infrastructure for Julia, and apply it regularly to registered packages (maybe per commit or PR as part of CI). I think it’d b…

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