Kernel vulnerabilities: old or new?
Kernel vulnerabilities: old or new?
[Security] Posted Oct 19, 2010 23:03 UTC (Tue) by corbet
A quick search of the CVE database turns up 80 CVE numbers related to kernel vulnerabilities so far this year. That might be a discouraging number, but only if we feel that we are continuing to introduce vulnerabilities at that rate; if we're just fixing older stuff, perhaps the kernel is getting more secure over time. Your editor did a study to try to determine whether that is true; click below (subscribers only) to see where 2010's kernel vulnerabilities came from.