The uneven skills of driver programmers have left a legion of holes in software that ships with Windows and Linux, security experts say.

Operating system vendors and hardware makers should commit more resources toward systematically auditing Windows and Linux device-driver code for flaws, security researchers say.

While buffer overflows, a type of memory flaw that can lead to serious vulnerabilities, are quickly being eradicated in critical applications, the flaws are still easily found in device drivers, said David Maynor, a research engineer for Internet Security Systems’ X-Force vulnerability analysis group.

Source: Security Focus