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i dont see how that's true. in both worlds, a developer has to take the manual action to review published vulnerabilities and track down repos they own that are affected and upgrade the dependencies.



No: with dynamic linking, and especially with Linux distributions, most of the work is automated and the patching is done by the distribution security team.

The time to write a patch and deliver it to running systems goes down to days or, more often, hours.




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