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5,198 Software Flaws Found in 2005

Posted by Zonk on from the better-to-find-them-than-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Security researchers uncovered nearly 5,200 software vulnerabilities in 2005, almost 40 percent more than the number discovered in 2004, according to Washingtonpost.com. From the article: 'According to US-CERT...researchers found 812 flaws in the Windows operating system, 2,328 problems in various versions of the Unix/Linux operating systems (Mac included). An additional 2,058 flaws affected multiple operating systems.'"

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  1. Axe Grinding by alanw · · Score: 5, Informative
    Brian Krebs is clearly either extremely stupid, or has an axe to grind. If you look at the Cert Cyber Security Bulletin 2005 Summary, you can see that many of the lines in it end in "(Updated)" A simple count of lines gives the results that Brian quotes, however there are far more "(Updated)" entries in the Unix/ Linux Operating Systems section. Removing these lines gives the following results:
    including excluding
    "(Updated)" "(Updated)"
    Windows 813 671
    U/L 2328 891
    Multiple 2057 1512

    (sorry about the spacing - can't find any way of doing it)

    greatly reducing the proportion of Unix/Linux vulnerabilities