ActiveState Platform: How to FIND and FIX vulnerabilities (CVEs)

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ActiveState Platform: How to FIND and FIX vulnerabilities (CVEs)

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Platform users can now find, fix and automatically rebuild a secure version of Python, Perl and Tcl environments in minutes. Learn how to use the ActiveState Platform to remediate vulnerable Python, Perl and Tcl runtime environments by selecting non-vulnerable package versions, and automatically rebuilding your environment, helping to shortcut the lengthy remediation process.

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Ready to give it a try? Find and Fix CVEs’ features are available on the Platform for all users. If you have a free ActiveState Platform account, you can create your own project and remediate it, or you can fork these sample vulnerable environments and try to remediate them:

For Python: PyVulnerable project

For Perl: PerlVulnerable project

You can find more information and instructions here:

How to remediate your open source vulnerabilities quicker

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At ActiveState, we use the Platform to build not only our popular open source language distributions, but also custom runtimes for our enterprise clients (i.e. builds containing just the language and packages their project requires). Try it out yourself or get a demo and understand how it can support your enterprise’s open source needs.

New to the ActiveState Platform? Here’s how to get started, once you’ve created your free account.

Use our Platform to build a custom runtime for your next project, including just the language and packages your project needs.

  • Choose a language (Python, Perl or Tcl right now)
  • Select your operating system (Linux or Windows, plus Mac for Python)
  • Add the packages your project requires

ActiveState regularly pulls packages from each language’s standard open source repository (CPAN, PyPI, etc) to ensure that your open source language and components are up to date, can be compiled from source, and are then verified to work together in a distribution that is packaged for most major operating systems. Go ahead and try our beta today! We are hanging out at our Community Forum to provide support as you explore.

The ActiveState Platform is free for development use. Explore our paid plans for non-development use such as testing, production, and redistribution.
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