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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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[–] StabbingSky@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

Many of the bugs have been present for years. This is about finding bugs that humans didn't, then humans fixing the bugs.