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the full release of Windows Vista has been in production use by business customers .... with onethird as many vulnerabilities fixed and with Windows Vista ...

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WINDOWS VISTAPage 1Jeff Jones Security Bloghttp://blogs.csoonline.com/blog/jeff_j oneshttp://blogs.technet.com/securityJune 15 2007 2007 Jeffrey R. Jones All Rights Reserved Jones onSecurityWINDOWS VISTA6MONTH VULNERABILITY REPORTBy Jeffrey R. JonesSecurity GuyPage 2Jeff Jones Security Bloghttp://blogs.csoonline.com/blog/jeff_j oneshttp://blogs.technet.com/securityJune 15 2007 2007 Jeffrey R. Jones All Rights Reserved Jones onSecurityContentsExecutive Summary................................... .......2The Security Researcher Ecosystem ...............3Windows Vista The First 6 Months .............3Vulnerability Fixes..................................... ...3Vulnerability Disclosures.............................4O ther Modern Operating Systems .................5Windows XP........................................ ..........5Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation ..5RHEL4WS Reduced Component Set.. 6Ubuntu 6.06 LTS .......................................... 7Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Reduced ComponentSet.............................. .................................7Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 8Novell SLED10 Reduced ComponentSet.............................. ................................ 8Apple Mac OS X v10.4 ................................. 9The Comparison Putting it All Together ... 9About the Author .......................................... . 14EXECUTIVE SUMMARYWindows Vista shipped to businesscustomers on the last day of November so the end of May is the 6month mark for supported production use of the product.This brief paper analyzes the vulnerability disclosures and fixes for the first 6 months ofWindows Vista and looks at it in the contextof its predecessor Windows XP along with several other modern workstation operating systems including Red Hat Ubuntu Novelland Apple products.The results of the analysis show that as it did at the 90 day mark Windows Vista has animproved security vulnerability profile over its predecessor and a significantly betterprofile relat ...

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