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Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20

by Jenny Guanni Qu pebblebed.com published 2026-01-07

What I learned mining 125,000 vulnerabilities from Linux git history. The average kernel bug lives 2.1 years before discovery, but some subsystems are far worse.
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