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>This essentially means they found more bugs in Linux because Linux has better tools to uncover subtle memory safety bugs.

Driver verifier has been part of Windows for 20+ years and detects memory overflows, underflows, use after free and whole bunch of other bad driver behavior specific to the Windows driver model.

I don't see any evidence in the paper that the authors knew about it, so it's possible more bugs can be found that way in Windows using their fuzzing tools



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