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Linux : Vulnerability Statistics

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Vulnerability Feeds & Widgets

Vulnerability Trends Over Time

Year # of Vulnerabilities DoS Code Execution Overflow Memory Corruption Sql Injection XSS Directory Traversal Http Response Splitting Bypass something Gain Information Gain Privileges CSRF File Inclusion # of exploits
1999 19 7 3 1 2
2000 5 3 1
2001 23 7 4 3
2002 15 3 1 1 1
2003 19 8 2 1 3 4
2004 50 20 5 12 5 11
2005 133 90 19 19 1 6 5 7
2006 89 60 5 7 7 2 5 3 3
2007 59 39 2 8 3 7 6
2008 74 45 4 17 3 4 8 10
2009 104 66 2 21 7 8 10 22 4
2010 119 63 3 16 7 8 31 14 5
2011 83 60 1 21 9 1 21 9 1
2012 115 83 3 24 10 6 19 11
2013 186 99 6 38 13 11 57 25 7
2014 128 87 6 18 10 10 29 19 10
2015 79 52 5 13 4 10 10 14
2016 216 153 6 36 18 12 34 51 1
2017 451 147 169 50 26 17 89 36
2018 181 84 3 29 10 4 20 3
2019 293 106 11 29 7 1 5 18 1
2020 127 25 5 12 5 1 7 7 3
2021 174 21 15 18 5 2 7 17 4
2022 310 49 8 33 5 8 29 15
2023 131 21 7 8 4 2 11 1
Total 3183 1398 285 435 151 6 141 434 275 28
% Of All 43.9 9.0 13.7 4.7 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 4.4 13.6 8.6 0.0 0.0

Warning : Vulnerabilities with publish dates before 1999 are not included in this table and chart. (Because there are not many of them and they make the page look bad; and they may not be actually published in those years.)

Vulnerabilities By Year
19
 5
 23
 15
 19
 50
 133
 89
 59
 74
 104
 119
 83
 115
 186
 128
 79
 216
 451
 181
 293
 127
 174
 310
 131
   1999 19
2000 5
2001 23
2002 15
2003 19
2004 50
2005 133
2006 89
2007 59
2008 74
2009 104
2010 119
2011 83
2012 115
2013 186
2014 128
2015 79
2016 216
2017 451
2018 181
2019 293
2020 127
2021 174
2022 310
2023 131
Vulnerabilities By Type
1398
 435
 141
 275
 434
 285
 151
 6
   Denial of Service 1398
Overflow 435
Bypass Something 141
Gain Privilege 275
Gain Information 434
Execute Code 285
Memory Corruption 151
Directory Traversal 6

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This page lists vulnerability statistics for all products of Linux. Vulnerability statistics provide a quick overview for security vulnerabilities related to software products of this vendor. You can view products of this vendor or security vulnerabilities related to products of Linux.

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