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6 CVEs tracked since 2008. Since Apr 2008, none of them reached CISA KEV.

Kernel CVEs per month

Apr 2008 to Jul 2018. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Kernel CVEs per month, with the share now in CISA KEV
MonthCVEsIn CISA KEV
2008-0410
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2014-0110
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2015-1110
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2017-0210
2017-03null or fewer
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2018-06null or fewer
2018-0720

Products

The products that kept showing up in Kernel's monthly top three, with their CVEs summed over those months.

  1. Util-linux33 months
  2. Heap-based Buffer Overflow In Fs/ext4/xattr.c11 month
  3. Linux Kernel11 month
  4. Security11 month

Latest CVEs

The 15 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Kernel.

  1. CVE-2026-13595Util-linux: util-linux: heap use-after-free in libblkid nested partition probing6.8
  2. CVE-2026-27456util-linux: TOCTOU Race Condition in util-linux mount(8) - Loop Device Setup4.7
  3. CVE-2026-3184Util-linux: util-linux: access control bypass due to improper hostname canonicalization3.7
  4. CVE-2024-28085wall in util-linux through 2.40, often installed with setgid tty permissions, allows escape sequences to be sent to other users' terminals through argv. (Specifically, escape sequences received fro...3.3
  5. CVE-2020-21583An issue was discovered in hwclock.13-v2.27 allows attackers to gain escalated privlidges or execute arbitrary commands via the path parameter when setting the date.6.7
  6. CVE-2021-3995A logic error was found in the libmount library of util-linux in the function that allows an unprivileged user to unmount a FUSE filesystem. This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker to unmou...5.5
  7. CVE-2021-3996A logic error was found in the libmount library of util-linux in the function that allows an unprivileged user to unmount a FUSE filesystem. This flaw allows a local user on a vulnerable system to ...5.5
  8. CVE-2022-0563A flaw was found in the util-linux chfn and chsh utilities when compiled with Readline support. The Readline library uses an "INPUTRC" environment variable to get a path to the library config file....5.5
  9. CVE-2021-37600An integer overflow in util-linux through 2.37.1 can potentially cause a buffer overflow if an attacker were able to use system resources in a way that leads to a large number in the /proc/sysvipc/...5.5
  10. CVE-2020-10751A flaw was found in the Linux kernels SELinux LSM hook implementation before version 5.7, where it incorrectly assumed that an skb would only contain a single netlink message. The hook would incorr...6.1
  11. CVE-2018-17953pam_access does not handle netmask matches correctly7.5
  12. CVE-2018-10840Linux kernel is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the fs/ext4/xattr.c:ext4_xattr_set_entry() function. An attacker could exploit this by operating on a mounted crafted ext4 image.6.6
  13. CVE-2016-9604It was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.11-rc8 that root can gain direct access to an internal keyring, such as '.dns_resolver' in RHEL-7 or '.builtin_trusted_keys' upstream, by joining it a...4.4
  14. CVE-2018-1108kernel drivers before version 4.17-rc1 are vulnerable to a weakness in the Linux kernel's implementation of random seed data. Programs, early in the boot sequence, could use the data allocated for ...5.9
  15. CVE-2018-1087kernel KVM before versions kernel 4.16, kernel 4.16-rc7, kernel 4.17-rc1, kernel 4.17-rc2 and kernel 4.17-rc3 is vulnerable to a flaw in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled exceptions...8.0

The record

Peak rank
#89 in Nov 2015
Busiest month shown
Jul 2018, 2 CVEs
Months with a KEV entry
0 since Apr 2008
Monthly snapshots
5 since 2008
Kernel's full record, month by month

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