This software had in 2015, most gaps – com-magazin.de

The security portal CVE Details made an evaluation of the vulnerabilities received in 2015 and held therein, for which operating systems and tools, most issues have been reported.

Vulnerabilities Top 10: CVE-details lists the reported 2015 vulnerabilities for operating systems and applications on.

Also in 2015 Users and administrators had their hands full again, to maintain the operating systems and tools used to date and to install patches. Which software especially many vulnerabilities have been reported, has now worked out the security portal CVE details.

Accordingly, in 2015 especially the Apple operating system Mac OS X had (384 CVE entries) and iOS (375 CVE entries) as well as Adobe’s Flash duration Sorgenkind (314 CVE entries) to deal with vulnerabilities. The most widely used web browser Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox can also be found in the Top 10 of the CVE-details list.

vulnerabilities by label: Microsoft leads the vendor-specific list with a total of 1590 CVE -Einträgen on.

However, the sheer number of reported CVE entries says quite little about the security of the software, since the severity of vulnerabilities is not considered. Moreover, lists CVE-Details the entries for operating systems not uniform. While the different versions of Mac OS X will be considered as a system, the different Windows versions are listed individually.

CVE standard for enhanced safety

About Report the CVE standard most renowned software manufacturers such as Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Co. vulnerabilities in their tools and systems to the nonprofit Organization Mitre Corporation. The unified standard is designed to ensure an easy exchange of information between different companies.