Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753437AbdGXJgV (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2017 05:36:21 -0400 Received: from cannabis.dataforce.net ([195.42.160.49]:37222 "EHLO cannabis.dataforce.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751537AbdGXJgP (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2017 05:36:15 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1217 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 05:36:15 EDT Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:14:55 +0300 From: Georgi Guninski To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in the current stable kernel? Message-ID: <20170724091455.GA3280@sivokote.iziade.m$> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline header: best read with a sniffer Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 474 Lines: 12 What is an estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in the current stable linux kernel? (Jul 24 07:59:50 UTC 2017) Total includes private and unknown bugs too. Also does the number decrease, increase or change in other way over time? If the answer is rather hard or well, ``undecidable'' what about only remote code execution bugs? Similar question about bugs in a linux distro was asked on oss-security and cypherpunks lists and some suggested "we can't tell".