[jussayonething]

Massive companies are more prone to silly errors like this.

Source: I work for a similar massive company. You would not believe the amount of issues similar to this. This one is gettin attention because it happened in open source code.

[gspetr]

Does the company have people whose job description includes looking for deeper problems such as this one?

I don't know what your position or political standing in the company is, but I assume that with the tech job market the way it is, if you still work there you care about the company to some degree. So perhaps bringing this issue up with (more) senior management is the way to go.

And if they say there is no budget, or that it would take a bureaucratic nightmare to make space for it in the budget, ask them what the budget is for dealing with PR disasters such as this one.