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Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard, July 2007

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Aug 2007 18:19 UTC, submitted by SEJeff

Jeff Jones has published another one of his vulnerability scorecards comparing various operating system offerings. As always, these figures just list the patched vulnerabilities over the designated period of time; they do not take into account any unfixed or undisclosed vulnerabilities. Hence, these reports are not proper measurements of security - they are just that, a tally of fixed vulnerabilities. Any conclusions like "x is more secure than y" cannot be drawn from this data set. As always, do with it as you please.

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Let the

by CrazyDude0 on Tue 21st Aug 2007 19:13 UTC

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2005-07-10

fanboys begin justifying high number of vulnerabilities in RHEL and SUSE....

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RE: Let the

by yanik on Tue 21st Aug 2007 19:30 in reply to "Let the"

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2005-07-13

I'll start,

It's the number of vulnerabilities that were fixed. Who knows how much undisclosed vulnerabilities are still not fixed by Microsoft...

lol

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RE[2]: Let the

by diegocg on Tue 21st Aug 2007 20:55 in reply to "RE: Let the"

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2005-07-08

Bullshit. Better software has a lower number of security holes.

According to your theory, OpenBSD or qmail are absolute CRAP, because they don't release many security fixes.

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