Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?

Ryan Carboni ryacko at gmail.com
Sat Jul 15 06:37:20 PDT 2017


https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/linux-kernel-security-needs-fixing/

The Linux kernel today faces an unprecedented safety crisis. Much like when
Ralph Nader famously told the American public that their cars were "unsafe
at any speed" back in 1965, numerous security developers told the 2016
Linux Security Summit in Toronto that the operating system needs a total
rethink to keep it fit for purpose.

No longer the niche concern of years past, Linux today underpins the server
farms that run the cloud, more than a billion Android phones, and not to
mention the coming tsunami of grossly insecure devices that will be hitched
to the Internet of Things. Today's world runs on Linux, and the security of
its kernel is a single point of failure that will affect the safety and
well-being of almost every human being on the planet in one way or another.

"Cars were designed to run but not to fail," Kees Cook, head of the Linux
Kernel Self Protection Project, and a Google employee working on the future
of IoT security, said at the summit. "Very comfortable while you're going
down the road, but as soon as you crashed, everybody died."

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I do not know what is more spectacular, that everyone is in capable of
discussing how to make the current network of privacy non-profits more
oriented towards protecting privacy when I first suggested ti months ago,
or that no one remembered this article from nearly a year ago.
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