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Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?
From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb () redhat com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 08:28:56 -0400
On Friday, July 14, 2017 5:34:01 AM EDT Georgi Guninski wrote:
What is an estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?
A few years back, Dan Geer wrote an interesting article about using biological models to estimate how many bugs exist. Biologists have the same issue, how many fish are in a lake? http://geer.tinho.net/fgm/fgm.geer.1504.pdf -Steve
Also, does the total number decrease, increase or change in other way over time?
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- Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro? Georgi Guninski (Jul 14)
- Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro? Greg KH (Jul 14)
- Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro? Steven Miano (Jul 14)
- Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro? Alan Coopersmith (Jul 14)
- Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro? Hanno Böck (Jul 14)
- Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro? Steve Grubb (Jul 14)
- Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro? Santiago Torres (Jul 14)
- Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro? Kurt Seifried (Jul 14)
- Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro? Javantea (Jul 14)
- Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro? Kristian Fiskerstrand (Jul 14)