On 2006-01-07, Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB2005.html#top
>
> This bulletin provides a year-end summary of software vulnerabilities that
>> were identified between January 2005 and December 2005. The information i=
> s
>> presented only as a index with links to the US-CERT Cyber Security Bullet=
> in
>> the information was published in. There were 5198 reported vulnerabilitie=
> s:
>> 812 Windows operating system vulnerabilities; 2328 Unix/Linux operating
>> vulnerabilities; and 2058 Multiple operating system vulnerabilities.
>
> Still think Windows is more buggy and unsafe than Linux?

Sure. As has been pointed out elsewhere, the *nix vulnerability total 
includes entries for all flavors of *nix, and dozens of linux 
distributions. May are seen to be duplicates -- i.e. a specific 
vulnerability will be listed and counted separately for Solaris, AIX, 
*BSD, and all the various linux distributions even though it is the same 
vulnerability and fixed by the same source patch. And the number of 
critical vulnerabilities in *nix is still lower than for Win.

-- 

-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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