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How many times did this happen since Debian's inception? How much time did it take to fix it when it happened?

Because "few" and "not much" would be fantastic.

Nothing is perfect.



That particular outstandingly bad security bug, once. (There are other cases of bugs in Debian that aren't present in upstream - in particular, Debian packagers introduced enough bugs in cdrecord that the maintainer made future versions non-open-source as he felt that these bugs that were not his fault were hurting his reputation - but I don't have any stats, and I don't feel that the rate of bugs in Debian is particularly high compared to other projects if we set aside the security-specific aspects).

Regarding time to fix it, the bug was fixed about 2 weeks after it was reported, but it had been present for about 20 months (affecting all DSA keys generated on Debian systems during that time) - since security audits and researchers only look at the original upstream source, the bug was only spotted when a user noticed that two of the servers they were logging into had the same SSH key.




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