How bulk pull requests could help scale open source bug fixes in the supply chain

The complicated tangle of dependencies in modern software development processes make it tricky to identify dangerous flaws hidden in open-source software (OSS) projects. But the bigger bugaboo has been how to issue fixes to vulnerable projects at a scale that can reduce the attack surface across the entire software supply chain.

How do you scale bug fixes for a single flaw that has been duplicated across thousands of OSS projects, each of which has its own maintainers, coding language, …

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