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And for those curious, here’s the current stats for kernel CVEs reserved/assigned/rejected since we started just over a year ago:

 Year	Reserved	Assigned	Rejected	 A+R		Total
  2019:	  47		   2		   1		   3		  50
  2020:	  36		  14		   0		  14		  50
  2021:	  20		 728		  23		 751		 771
  2022:	  20		1098		  16		1114		1134
  2023:	  20		 493		  28		 521		 541
  2024:	  20		3067		  84		3151		3171
  2025:	1837		 384		  12		 396		2233
 Total:	2000		5786		 164		5950		7950
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More fun with CVE numbers:

=== CVEs Published Per Year ===
2024: 4451 CVEs
2025: 1502 CVEs

=== CVEs Published in Last 6 Months ===
  November 2024:  280 CVEs
  December 2024:  358 CVEs
   January 2025:  234 CVEs
  February 2025:  929 CVEs
     March 2025:  214 CVEs
     April 2025:  125 CVEs

=== Overall Averages ===
Average CVEs per month: 401.95
Average CVEs per week: 92.40
Average CVEs per day: 13.19
Statistics calculated from 2024-01-21 to 2025-04-16
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