Archive for 2005/09/09

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.
Debian’s [...]