{"slug": "ibm-and-red-hat-find-more-than-400-new-vulnerabilities-in-popular-java-code", "title": "IBM and Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code", "summary": "IBM and Red Hat announced that their AI-powered Lightwell initiative has identified and helped remediate more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries, and that Lightwell Clearinghouse is now generally available as an enterprise service for submitting open-source software dependencies for priority review and remediation. The companies said the milestone addresses a growing business risk as autonomous AI agents become capable of combining several lower-risk software weaknesses into a more serious attack.", "body_md": "IBM and Red Hat say their AI-powered Lightwell initiative has identified and helped remediate more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across widely used Java libraries. Phoronix reports: They announced this feat today as part of their promoting Lightwell Clearinghouse to GA, which is an enterprise service for their customers to submit open-source software dependencies for priority review and remediation.\n From today's announcement: \"The milestone addresses a growing business risk. As autonomous AI agents become capable of combining several lower-risk software weaknesses into a more serious attack, companies need to do more than identify vulnerabilities. They need a practical way to develop, test and deploy fixes in the software that supports critical applications.\"\n[Read more of this story](https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/10/06/1854244/ibm-and-red-hat-find-more-than-400-new-vulnerabilities-in-popular-java-code?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed) at Slashdot.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ibm-and-red-hat-find-more-than-400-new-vulnerabilities-in-popular-java-code", "canonical_source": "https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/10/06/1854244/ibm-and-red-hat-find-more-than-400-new-vulnerabilities-in-popular-java-code?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", "published_at": "2026-10-06 19:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-06 19:16:45.011346+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["IBM", "Red Hat", "Lightwell", "Lightwell Clearinghouse", "Java", "Phoronix", "Slashdot"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ibm-and-red-hat-find-more-than-400-new-vulnerabilities-in-popular-java-code", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ibm-and-red-hat-find-more-than-400-new-vulnerabilities-in-popular-java-code.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ibm-and-red-hat-find-more-than-400-new-vulnerabilities-in-popular-java-code.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ibm-and-red-hat-find-more-than-400-new-vulnerabilities-in-popular-java-code.jsonld"}}