Researchers from the University of Minnesota apologized to Linux kernel project’s maintainers. The apology comes over a study into what’s called “hypocrite commits,” which was published earlier this February. The project aimed to deliberately add use-after-free vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel in the name of security research, apparently in an attempt to highlight how potentially malicious code could sneak past the approval process. The university was banned from contributing to the open-source project in the future, and all past code submitted by the researchers were invalidated.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/minnesota-university-apologizes-for.html