Android, Debian, and Ubuntu Top Most Vulnerable Products Chart in 2016

Statistics provided by CVE Details, an online database that collects and stores information on software security vulnerabilities, reveal that Android, Debian Linux, and Ubuntu Linux were the three most vulnerable products in 2016.

Android had the biggest number of vulnerabilities during the year – 523, followed by Debian Linux with 319 and Ubuntu Linux with 278. Surprisingly, Adobe’s Flash Player only came fourth with 266 vulnerabilities, even though it was number one for a long time.

As far as “leader” Android is concerned, these stats show a worrying increase in the number of Denial of Service vulnerabilities in 2016, but also a drop in memory corruption flaws for the mobile operating system. Specifically, the number of DoS vulnerabilities jumped from 56 in 2015 to no less than 104 the past year, while memory corruption glitches declined from 46 to 38.

There were also 99 vulnerabilities in An...