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SystemVerilog and Verilog Formatter

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Beautify SystemVerilog and Verilog code in VSCode through Verible

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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses

No license compliance issues

Secrets

50 debugging symbols found

Security

Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities detected

Hardening

43 baseline mitigations missing

Threats

Tampering

No evidence of software tampering

Malware

No evidence of malware inclusion

List of software quality issues with the number of affected components.

Policies

Info

Problem

ASLR (address-space layout randomization) is a mitigation technique that increases the difficulty of performing buffer-overflow attacks that require the attacker to know the address of the program in memory. This is done by loading the program at a randomly selected address in the process' address space. ASLR-enabled kernels can choose a random load address only for position-independent executables and code.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

26 packages

found in

Top 100

151 packages

found in

Top 1k

409 packages

found in

Top 10k

1.45k packages

in community

Next steps

To support ASLR, the program must be compiled as position-independent code. In most compilers, this is done by passing the corresponding position-independent flag, such as -fPIC for shared libraries or -fPIE for executables.

Problem

Software components sometimes need to interact with higher privilege parts of the operating system, often requiring administrative access to accomplish a task. Operating systems include a complete network stack with many services that allow the machine to connect to the internet. Some of these services are used to secure network access. For that reason, attackers often aim to tamper with system network settings. Disabling firewalls and other network security features enable the malicious code to execute without being blocked. While the presence of code that tampers with system network settings does not necessarily imply malicious intent, all of its uses in a software package should be documented and approved. Only select applications should consider using functions that interact with system network settings. One example of acceptable use for such functions is allowing specialized applications to use non-standard network ports by updating the firewall allowlist.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

16 packages

found in

Top 100

67 packages

found in

Top 1k

161 packages

found in

Top 10k

590 packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1562.004 - Disable or Modify System Firewall.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

29 packages

found in

Top 100

208 packages

found in

Top 1k

716 packages

found in

Top 10k

2.89k packages

in community

Next steps

It's highly recommended to enable this option for all software components used at security boundaries, or those that process user controlled inputs.

To enable this mitigation, refer to your programming language toolchain documentation.

In Microsoft VisualStudio, you can enable CFG mitigation by passing the /guard:cf parameter to the compiler and linker.

Problem

Control Flow Guard (CFG/CFI) protects the code flow integrity by ensuring that indirect calls are made only to vetted functions. This mitigation protects dynamically resolved function targets by instrumenting the code responsible for transferring execution control. Higher-level programming languages implement structured exception handling by managing their own code flow execution paths. As such, they are subject to code flow hijacking during runtime. Language-specific exception handling mitigation enforces execution integrity by instrumenting calls to manage execution context switching. Any deviation from the known and trusted code flow paths will cause the application to terminate. This makes malicious code less likely to execute.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

47 packages

found in

Top 100

286 packages

found in

Top 1k

912 packages

found in

Top 10k

4.37k packages

in community

Next steps

It's highly recommended to enable this option for all software components used at security boundaries, or those that process user controlled inputs.

To enable this mitigation, refer to your programming language toolchain documentation.

In Microsoft VisualStudio, you can enable CFG mitigation by passing the /guard:cf parameter to the compiler and linker.

Problem

Common compilers often embed source code information into executables for debugging purposes, usually by mapping symbols to source filenames or paths. While this is typically desirable in open-source software and standard tools, that information can be used to determine security weaknesses, code repository layout, trade secrets and similar sensitive information. Such symbols make it easier to reverse-engineer a closed source application.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

35 packages

found in

Top 100

248 packages

found in

Top 1k

593 packages

found in

Top 10k

2.32k packages

in community

Next steps

Strip out such information in the linking phase by using compiler options like the -s flag in GCC, or in the post-build phase by using the strip tool.

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List of software quality issues with the number of affected components.

Policies

Info

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

26 packages

found in

Top 100

151 packages

found in

Top 1k

409 packages

found in

Top 10k

1.45k packages

in community

Next steps

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

16 packages

found in

Top 100

67 packages

found in

Top 1k

161 packages

found in

Top 10k

590 packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1562.004 - Disable or Modify System Firewall.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

29 packages

found in

Top 100

208 packages

found in

Top 1k

716 packages

found in

Top 10k

2.89k packages

in community

Next steps

It's highly recommended to enable this option for all software components used at security boundaries, or those that process user controlled inputs.

To enable this mitigation, refer to your programming language toolchain documentation.

In Microsoft VisualStudio, you can enable CFG mitigation by passing the /guard:cf parameter to the compiler and linker.

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

47 packages

found in

Top 100

286 packages

found in

Top 1k

912 packages

found in

Top 10k

4.37k packages

in community

Next steps

It's highly recommended to enable this option for all software components used at security boundaries, or those that process user controlled inputs.

To enable this mitigation, refer to your programming language toolchain documentation.

In Microsoft VisualStudio, you can enable CFG mitigation by passing the /guard:cf parameter to the compiler and linker.

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

35 packages

found in

Top 100

248 packages

found in

Top 1k

593 packages

found in

Top 10k

2.32k packages

in community

Next steps

Strip out such information in the linking phase by using compiler options like the -s flag in GCC, or in the post-build phase by using the strip tool.

SystemVerilog and Verilog Formatter

SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Security

Threats

SQ18111Detected Linux executable files that do not implement the ASLR vulnerability mitigation protection.Causes risk: baseline mitigations missinghardening

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH16113Detected presence of software components that can tamper with the system network settings.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

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SQ14122Detected Windows executable files that do not implement CFG vulnerability mitigation protection.Causes risk: modern mitigations missinghardening

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

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SQ14127Detected Windows executable files that do not implement long jump control flow vulnerability mitigation protection.Causes risk: low priority mitigations absenthardening

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

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SQ34204Detected presence of hardcoded source code filenames or paths.Causes risk: debugging symbols foundsecrets

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

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Did you know...

SQ18111Detected Linux executable files that do not implement the ASLR vulnerability mitigation protection.Causes risk: baseline mitigations missinghardening

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH16113Detected presence of software components that can tamper with the system network settings.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

SQ14122Detected Windows executable files that do not implement CFG vulnerability mitigation protection.Causes risk: modern mitigations missinghardening

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

SQ14127Detected Windows executable files that do not implement long jump control flow vulnerability mitigation protection.Causes risk: low priority mitigations absenthardening

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

SQ34204Detected presence of hardcoded source code filenames or paths.Causes risk: debugging symbols foundsecrets

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps