On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Gary Grebus <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently started building OpenSSL 1.0.1c in one of our source pools
> that is scanned with Coverity, and was surprised at the large number of
> issues that were reported.   There was a significant increase even from
> an earlier version we were using.
>
> What is the status of OpenSSL with regard to Coverity coverage?  Are
> there a large number of known false positives?  Is there any regular
> activity to identify and fix real defects?

Coverity used to, and perhaps still do, run scans of OpenSSL, which we
had (have?) access to. I used to look at them and fix relevant ones,
but got irritated with the false positive level in the end.

If Coverity were interested in fixing their bugs, I might get
interested in looking at their reports again.

>
> Thanks,
>     Gary
> ---
> Gary Grebus
> Dell Inc. / EqualLogic Storage
>
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