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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 23 7 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 63 41 2 8 3 8 7
2008 77 47 4 18 4 1 4 7 11
2009 105 66 2 22 7 8 11 22 5
2010 125 68 3 16 7 8 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 134 89 9 21 10 11 30 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 52 26 1 17 89 36
2018 110 66 3 21 6 3 8
Total 2118 1177 244 342 123 4 113 342 257 29
% Of All 55.6 11.5 16.1 5.8 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 5.3 16.1 12.1 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
 23
 15
 19
 51
 133
 90
 63
 77
 105
 125
 86
 116
 189
 134
 86
 218
 454
 110
   1999 19
2000 5
2001 23
2002 15
2003 19
2004 51
2005 133
2006 90
2007 63
2008 77
2009 105
2010 125
2011 86
2012 116
2013 189
2014 134
2015 86
2016 218
2017 454
2018 110
Vulnerabilities By Type
1177
 342
 113
 257
 342
 244
 123
 4
   Denial of Service 1177
Overflow 342
Bypass Something 113
Gain Privilege 257
Gain Information 342
Execute Code 244
Memory Corruption 123
Directory Traversal 4

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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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