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Linux : Vulnerability Statistics

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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 22 6 4 3
2002 15 3 1 1 1
2003 19 8 2 1 3 4
2004 51 20 5 12 5 12
2005 133 90 19 19 1 6 5 7
2006 90 61 5 7 7 2 5 3 3
2007 62 41 2 8 3 8 7
2008 76 46 4 18 4 4 7 12
2009 102 64 2 21 6 7 11 21 5
2010 124 68 3 16 7 7 30 14 5
2011 86 62 1 21 10 1 21 9 1
2012 116 83 4 25 10 6 19 11
2013 189 101 6 41 13 11 57 26 7
2014 131 88 9 20 9 11 28 20 10
2015 86 55 6 15 4 11 10 17
2016 218 153 6 38 18 12 35 52 1
2017 454 147 169 54 26 1 17 89 36
2018 178 84 3 28 9 4 20 3
2019 170 44 5 25 6 4 18 1
Total 2346 1234 249 374 130 3 116 370 261 29
% Of All 52.6 10.6 15.9 5.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 4.9 15.8 11.1 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
 22
 15
 19
 51
 133
 90
 62
 76
 102
 124
 86
 116
 189
 131
 86
 218
 454
 178
 170
   1999 19
2000 5
2001 22
2002 15
2003 19
2004 51
2005 133
2006 90
2007 62
2008 76
2009 102
2010 124
2011 86
2012 116
2013 189
2014 131
2015 86
2016 218
2017 454
2018 178
2019 170
Vulnerabilities By Type
1234
 374
 116
 261
 370
 249
 130
 3
   Denial of Service 1234
Overflow 374
Bypass Something 116
Gain Privilege 261
Gain Information 370
Execute Code 249
Memory Corruption 130
Directory Traversal 3

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