GitHub says its security scan for old vulnerabilities in JavaScript and Ruby libraries has turned up over four million bugs and sparked a major clean-up by project owners.. The massive bug find total was reached within a month of the initiative's launch in November when GitHub began scanning for known vulnerabilities in certain popular open-source libraries and notifying project owners that they should be using an updated version. . GitHub identified more than four million vulnerabilities in Java and Python packages, leading to necessary rectifications by developers.. Dependency Management, Library Security, Code Flaws, Security Issues. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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