RE: [Ethereal-dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Ethereal

["Andreas Sikkema" <andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxx>]

> BTW, we have a lower defect rate than most of the projects on the list
> including Apache, Firefox, FreeBSD, gcc, Gnome, Linux 2.6, OpenSSL,
> Perl, and Python.  Of the projects > 1M lines of code, we have the
> lowest defect rate by far.  Heh.

As mentioned on lwn.net http://lwn.net/Articles/174426/:

"On the other hand, ethereal shows a very low defect rate, which can be 
hard to square with the long list of security advisories from that
project."


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