BOLT Security Engagement Complete! (opens in new tab)  ⚙️Compilers

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security work on the BOLT binary scanner for LLVM. LLVM is an open source compiler for translating human-readable source code for machine-readable hardware. In 2024, Arm engineer Kristof Beyls developed a static binary analyzer on BOLT, to assist with securing security-relevant code generation. With the help of Quarkslab and Sovereign Tech Agency, the BOLT scanner received custom security work to extend coverage ...