C Hardening

Open-source C projects categorized as Hardening

Top 3 C Hardening Projects

  1. hardened_malloc

    Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability / integration over time.

    Project mention: The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-05

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  2. InfluxDB

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  3. lkrg

    Linux Kernel Runtime Guard

    Project mention: Linux Kernel Runtime Guard | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-28
  4. suhosin7

    Suhosin Extension for PHP 7.x

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Hardening projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 hardened_malloc 1,415
2 lkrg 447
3 suhosin7 120

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