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> I'm not sure how or what you're counting.

The recent two. FailCopy and DirtyFrag and FreeBSD with Execve.

2 - Linux 1 - FreeBSD.

Of course, all OS have had past-time exploits. Three now have made the news.



> 2 Linux

Three. I don't know if this has a name yet... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067734


Your question was "how many high profile privilege escalations Windows has had recently" then? I can't think of any, 0?


https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-21250


Windows vulnerability list is overflowing with lpes, hundreds of them. You should filter it per month, the list is too big to load in full.


It was a sarcastic joke, never mind.




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