Windows 10: Top 50 Products By Total Number Of "Distinct" Vulnerabilities in 2015

Product Name Vendor Name Product Type Number of Vulnerabilities

1 Mac Os X Apple OS 384
2 Iphone Os Apple OS 375
3 Flash Player Adobe Application 314
4 Air Sdk Adobe Application 246
5 Air Sdk & Compiler Adobe Application 246
6 AIR Adobe Application 246
7 Internet Explorer Microsoft Application 231
8 Chrome Google Application 187
9 Firefox Mozilla Application 178
10 Windows Server 2012 Microsoft OS 155
11 Ubuntu Linux Canonical OS 152
12 Windows 8.1 Microsoft OS 151
13 Windows Server 2008 Microsoft OS 149
14 Windows 7 Microsoft OS 147
15 Windows 8 Microsoft OS 146
16 Windows Rt 8.1 Microsoft OS 139
17 Windows Rt Microsoft OS 138
18 Windows Vista Microsoft OS 135
19 Safari Apple Application 135
20 Android Google OS 130
21 Acrobat Adobe Application 129
22 Acrobat Reader Adobe Application 129
23 Opensuse Novell OS 121
24 Debian Linux Debian OS 111
25 Itunes Apple Application 100
26 Acrobat Reader Dc Adobe Application 97
27 Acrobat Dc Adobe Application 97
28 Firefox Esr Mozilla Application 94
29 JRE Oracle Application 80
30 JDK Oracle Application 80
31 Linux Kernel Linux OS 77
32 Mysql Oracle Application 76
33 Fusion Middleware Oracle Application 68
34 Apple Tv Apple Application 57
35 Windows 10 Microsoft OS 53
36 Watchos Apple OS 53
37 IOS Cisco OS 46
38 Apple Tv Apple OS 43
39 Windows Microsoft OS 41
40 Office Microsoft Application 40
41 Ios Xe Cisco OS 38
42 Fedora Fedoraproject OS 38
43 E-business Suite Oracle Application 37
44 Windows Server 2003 Microsoft OS 36
45 Openssl Openssl Application 34
46 XEN XEN OS 34
47 Wireshark Wireshark Application 33
48 Mediawiki Mediawiki Application 31
49 Thunderbird Mozilla Application 29
50 Windows 2003 Server Microsoft OS 29

http://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php?year=2015

 

Interesting list. *Nerd

As expected, "XP Armageddon" hasn't occurred.

:)

 

my phone " keys in " some numbers while talking

As I said in my first post you can either try to update it's software to see if it cures it.

If it doesn't then your phone is faulty and you will need to get it repaired.

 

Transition to Windows Phone 8

It is 46 out of 50 top apps available for WP8.



Ray.

 

Interesting Mac OSX is one item whereas you have Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows RT 8.1, Window 8 RT, Windows Vista, Windows 10 ... (and no XP as it has no "distinct" vulnerabilities at all).

Not surprising they put the word "distinct" in quotes. The quotes probably implies "not distinct" or more likely "made up"....

 

Maybe "Item 39" covers all other Windows versions.

 

I thought that Windows Server 2003 (which I am running as a file sharing server) having only 29 distinct items was interesting.

 

I wonder how they measure that. And it was interesting that the Apple products won (they were on top of the list).

 

I looked at the link, and it appears that the closer to the top of the list you are, the more vulnerabilities you have, in other words the lower down you are, the safer you are. Though what they call a 'vulnerability' is unclear.

 

Top 50 products having highest number of cve security vulnerabilities

XP looks like it has not been "tracked" or listed since 2014 - Number 6 here on "all time list".

 

Thanks VooDoo. *Smile

IMO, that is actually a pretty good result given:

• How old XP is (~15 years)
• That some more recently written software is listed as having more issues

 

See I think newer features would be more at risk, especially since it takes time for newer products to mature.

I look at some of the MOST stable Windows versions. They were less stable and secure initially, but stabilized over time. With Windows 2000 there was the ILoveYou virus that was nasty. Though uptime was still impressive on some servers with the RTM and SP1 builds, stability and better patching seemed to come by the time SP2 was around.

Windows XP initially ran into that Melissa virus and that trojan that shutdown your system (remember that?). Windows XP did reach some level of maturity by SP2, though I find that it created a definite performance hit with the slower hardware at the time. Windows XP RTM ran great on a PIII 866 with 512 MB of RAM, whereas the same performance on SP2 really seemed to only be achievable on a P4 1.4 GHZ machine (although you could get away with 256 MB of RAM, because the processor speed increase took up the slack). However it WAS more secure.

Windows 10 really is stable. What I don't care for are the UI and feature set, but that might improve over time. Truth is, I expect new products to require some ironing out initially.
*Smile