Articles by Samuel Hangouët

2 articles

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) commissioned Quarkslab to extend the BOLT-based static binary analyser in LLVM to support additional compiler flags for security hardening. This work resulted in the first iteration of a scanner for validating the implementation of -ftrivial-auto-var-init.

Date Mon 01 June 2026
Authors Sébastien Rolland, Samuel Hangouet
Category Software

The Scala team has partnered with the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) to conduct its first security audit. This initiative aims to identify potential vulnerabilities through static and dynamic analysis and provide greater confidence in Scala. The security audit conducted by Quarkslab is particularly focused on Scala 3.