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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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[-] ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 35 points 1 week ago

It will be fascinating when the data is available, to see a graph showing the number of security vulnerabilities added to the kernel with each commit, obviously they'll have to be found and patched before that can be determined.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I haven't even looked at this yet but someone posted https://lwn.net/Articles/914632/ elsewhere in the thread, so sending it to you. As noted, less time to find in recent versions.

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