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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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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I haven't even looked at this yet but someone posted https://lwn.net/Articles/914632/ elsewhere in the thread, so sending it to you. As noted, less time to find in recent versions.