Let me first say that I'm not as anti-Linux as I used to be due to all the research I've been doing with it over the past year or so. Yet, there are some basic flaws in the arguments I hear regarding Linux vs Windows. My favorite has to do with FOSS, but this article is about vulnerabilities that lead to security issues. Linux has always been advertised as way more secure than Windows, but some high level researchers recently found way more flaws in the Linux kernel than they did in Windows. I'm not happy that the Linux kernel is flawed, but I am glad that somebody has hard evidence against that security argument Linux supporters like to use.Researchers found one bug in FreeBSD, three in MacOS (two resulting in an unplanned reboot and one freezing the system), and four in Windows 8 and Windows 10 (resulting in Blue Screens of Death).
However, the vast majority of bugs, and the most severe, were found in Linux -- 18 in total.
The article is more about the device used to test the USB stack, which they overflowed using a portable USB fuzzer. This is just a gizmo you plug into a USB port and send gobs of random data. That causes what is known as stack overflows, and it is at that point the system (any system) becomes vulnerable. The Linux kernel development team knows about all these things but apparently is a little slower than the rest of the field getting patches made.