Red Hat Launches 11 RHEL5 Security Advisories

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re: Red Hat Launches 11 RHEL5 Security Advisories

kizzer — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:07:37 GMT

Jeff,

"When the first vulnerability was announced in Windows Vista a month after release, it was big news."

Isn't the issue that the Vista OS still isn't repaired?

re: Red Hat Launches 11 RHEL5 Security Advisories

jrjones — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:38:41 GMT

I don't know - is that the issue? That we've had one serious issue that is taking over 90 days to fix with quality?

Well, let's see then. One of the advisories for the new RHEL5 was a Critical advisory for Firefox. At least one of the Firefox vulns fixed yesterday was publicly disclosed back in November - about 5 months before the product release...

Another example. At the end of 90 days after Red Hat RHEL4 was released in 2005, there were 85 publicly disclosed issue that had no patch ... compared with 4 right now for Windows Vista. I can't seem to find any outraged news coverage about that either...

So, don't get me wrong. If folks think a vendor is dragging their feet on a serious issue, give 'em heck! I just feel compelled to point out when they're being a bit inconsistent in their standards

re: Red Hat Launches 11 RHEL5 Security Advisories

kizzer — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:46:28 GMT

Agreed. Good article & thanks for the followup.

re: Red Hat Launches 11 RHEL5 Security Advisories

Keith Combs — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:06:06 GMT

If that happened to Windows Vista or Longhorn Server, it would be on CNN and the AP Newswire. That said, I'm embarrassed for Red Hat. They knew about it and released it any way?

Can you beat this? - No stories, just facts & numbers

Blogging @ Microsoft — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:38:37 GMT

As simple as this. Vulnerabilities Year to Date of the most well known OS... One example: 3 out of the