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Security response: how are we doing?



https://lwn.net/Articles/467615/
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Ideally, a table like the above should have no "none" entries at all.
There was no distributor without unpatched vulnerabilities, but some
clearly have more than others. It is, in particular, sad to see so many
missing updates in the Debian column. One could argue that, say, a lack
of urgency to fix an rpm vulnerability on Debian's part is
understandable, but one could also argue that, if the package is not
worth fixing, it probably should not be shipped in the first place.
Despite being based on Debian, Ubuntu has a more complete set of
updates, but the smallest number of missing updates can be found in the
Red Hat and Fedora columns; Red Hat continues to be relatively serious
about getting fixes out there.
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