Mac OS X was 2015, the software with the most vulnerabilities – CNET.de

Christian Schartel at 4 , January 2016 , 19:30 clock

In Apple Mac OS X 384 public has become known vulnerabilities were counted in the year 2015th In Apple iOS 375 vulnerabilities have been discovered, which it revives the 2nd place.

In the past year vulnerabilities in many programs discovered and operating systems. According to Neowin stuck in Mac OS X 384 vulnerabilities that have become public knowledge. Thus the operating system is the most vulnerable software 2015. Neowin is the placement with CVE numbers that were compiled based on the detected by the Mitre Corporation Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). In 2014, the OS behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer took second place.

OS X El Capitan (Image: Apple )

It is striking that the number of officially registered vulnerabilities in software compared to 2014 increased significantly. Did the Internet Explorer the statistics two years ago with 243 entries in the first place winner Mac OS X came last year to 384 entries. In addition ranged 2014 81 CVEs for a place in the top ten – 2015 mean 80 CVEs Rank 29

The second place goes to 2015, an Apple product.. The mobile operating system iOS was therefore in the past year 375 vulnerabilities. The runners landed Adobe Flash Player with 314 CVEs and Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), the AIR SDK and AIR SDK and compiler with each 246 CVEs.

On the seventh to ninth place, there are, however, exclusively Browser , namely Microsoft Internet Explorer Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Immerse yourself in the CVE database of the Year 2015 with 231, 187 and 178 entries. The seats 10 to 18 show, however, the operating systems Windows Server 2012, Ubuntu Linux as well as Windows 8.1, Server 2008, 7, 8, 8.1 RT, RT and Vista. However, applications like Safari, Adobe Reader and Acrobat and the operating systems Android , OpenSuse and Debian Linux had 2015 respectively over 100 documented security breaches.

The increase shows Also in the total number of vulnerabilities that combine the top ten items on it. They rose 2014-2015 of 1263 to 2316, representing an increase of 83 percent. 2013 had the ten “uncertain” software products together in 1481 vulnerabilities in 2012 were 1361 security-related bugs.

Neowin points out, however, that CVE details the vulnerabilities in all OS X versions summarizing to an entry while the figures for the different versions of Windows lists individually. In addition, the statistics is no information about the severity of vulnerabilities. It is therefore no indication of how safe or unsafe, an application or an operating system really is.

[With material by Stefan Beier man ZDNet.de]