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Chart of Linux security vulnerabilities fixed per kernel version (media.piefed.social)
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Source: https://github.com/gregkh/kernel-development/blob/master/graphs%2Fpatches_per_release%2Fcves_fixed_per_release.png

AI coding tools are pretty good at finding bugs and make it easier and faster to fix them.

Importantly, security vulnerabilities in new releases seem to stay roughly the same and the change to which bugs count as CVEs was around version 6.8 already.

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Some of it is due to AI but much of it is people finally paying attention to security. For a long time no one thought about security vulnerabilities. These days many bugs in Linux are considered a security issue and thus gets there own CVE

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