Windows, OS X, and iOS Top 2015's List of Software With the Most Vulnerabilities (venturebeat.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 1, 2016 @02:15AM from the also-top-list-of-most-investigated-for-vulnerabilities dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Which software had the most publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in 2015? According to a site called CVE Details, which organizes data provided by the National Vulnerability Database, Apple's Mac OS X was near the top, with 384 vulnerabilities. iOS followed closely, with 375 vulnerabilities. The list splits out Windows into its separate versions, so it's hard to get an accurate count — simply adding them all together yields a total of over 1,000, but there are likely many duplicates. Other top spots went to Adobe's Flash Player, with 314 vulnerabilities; Adobe's AIR SDK, with 246 vulnerabilities; and Adobe AIR itself, also with 246 vulnerabilities. The four major web browsers also ranked quite highly.

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Re: Android. by Rosyna · 2016-01-01 02:32 · Score: 5, Informative

Because the list includes bugs found and publicly disclosed, the company that fixes the most bugs has the highest number of disclosed bugs in any list. Since Google doesn't really disclose Android bugs, many never get added to the list.
Furthermore, Apple submits self-found security bugs and gets CVEs assigned to them. Most other vendors do not report self-found bugs.