More Bad News on the Security Front
Today’s issue of Linux Weekly News includes a security response time comparison amongst major distros. Debian comes last on all the vulnerabilities examined bar one; here’s a summary of response times:
Debian
Fedora
GenToo
Red Hat
SuSE
Ubuntu
Average days
19.8
5.8
7.4
12.0
12.7
5.0
Maximum days
35
16
14
28
16
12
Minimum days
9
0
3
4
7
1
Number n/a
0
0
0
2
0
1
Number apparently unfixed
3
3
2
1
6
2
Read the article for the details (subscribers only for a couple of weeks), the above summary’s my own.
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