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Chart of Linux security vulnerabilities fixed per kernel version (media.piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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Source: https://github.com/gregkh/kernel-development/blob/master/graphs%2Fpatches_per_release%2Fcves_fixed_per_release.png

AI coding tools are pretty good at finding bugs and make it easier and faster to fix them.

Importantly, security vulnerabilities in new releases seem to stay roughly the same and the change to which bugs count as CVEs was around version 6.8 already.

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[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Maybe this https://aaddrick.github.io/kernel-cve-watch/data/cves.csv

(Not very well counted. Please double check my numbers. Ironically it made me wish I had mcp for LibreOffice because I couldn't figure out how to sort this data correctly lmao)
282 introduced after 6.19 (including).
117 introduced before 6.19 (excluding) and fixed after 6.19. There's also 31 fixed after 6.19 that don't say when they were introduced.