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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. Do the math... by Ancient_Hacker · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    800-some isnt so bad. Do you remember when part of the Windows source code got out, and a little GREPping showed about 48,000 uses of untamed strcpy, strcat and sprintf?

    If you assume only 5% of those calls could overflow a buffer, Windows is doing 4x better than expected!