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Story: Secunia: More Red Hat flaws than Microsoft in 2007

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Not quite so fast Secunia... Those numbers are misleading

The same Apache vulnerability was counted 6 times. Secunia treats the same advisory that affectsRed Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5, Red Hat Application Stack v1, v2 as 6 different ones.

Mark Cox, Redhat's Security lead says, "
Using our public tool, for every Red Hat product and service, for 2007
we issued 306 advisories to fix 404 vulnerabilities. Of those 404
vulnerabilities 41 were critical (on the scale used by Microsoft and
Red Hat)."
Source: http://www.awe.com/mark/blog/200801161200.html

ZDNET Editors, please update this article with that blog posting. It brings things into perspective.

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