Comment by mariusor
3 months ago
Maybe you can do a comparison to another well known open source project and see how well systemd fares: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/l...
3 months ago
Maybe you can do a comparison to another well known open source project and see how well systemd fares: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/l...
Or OpenRC, which is closer to a competitor, than an entire OS. [0]
[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/o...
Of course, the scope is different, the kernel is about 30 times as large as systemd (which is less than I was expecting frankly), but they both match the description "low-level large C language project". Therefore in my mind they should have a similarl density of CVEs per lines of code:
Systemd has 4 open CvEs in ~1M lines of code.
The linux kernel hash 18 open CvEs in ~30M lines of code.