Jay Little on The Trail of Bits Bloghttps://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/authors/jay-little/Recent content in Jay Little on The Trail of Bits BlogHugoen-usThu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400Taming 2,500 compiler warnings with CodeQL, an OpenVPN2 case studyhttps://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/2025/09/25/taming-2500-compiler-warnings-with-codeql-an-openvpn2-case-study/Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:00:00 -0400https://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/2025/09/25/taming-2500-compiler-warnings-with-codeql-an-openvpn2-case-study/We created a CodeQL query that reduced 2,500+ compiler warnings about implicit conversions in OpenVPN2 to just 20 high-priority cases, demonstrating how to effectively identify potentially dangerous type conversions in C code.