Linux Kernel CVE Statistics
8 Linux Kernel CVEs in August 2008
Full month · Source: NIST NVD
In August 2008, 8 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 3 were rated High severity and 4 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. August's 8 CVEs represent 10% of all 2008 Linux kernel CVEs , up from July's 6 (a 33% month-over-month increase) .
8
Total CVEs
0
Critical
3
High
4
Medium
1
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — August 2008
8 CVEs
| CVE ID | Package | Severity | CVSS | Published | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2008-3496 | linux | High | 10.0 | 2008-08-06 | Buffer overflow in format descriptor parsing in the uvc_parse_format function in drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_driver.c i… | |
| CVE-2008-3526 | linux | High | 7.8 | 2008-08-27 | Integer overflow in the sctp_setsockopt_auth_key function in net/sctp/socket.c in the Stream Control Transmission Proto… | |
| CVE-2008-3276 | linux | High | 7.1 | 2008-08-18 | Integer overflow in the dccp_setsockopt_change function in net/dccp/proto.c in the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol… | |
| CVE-2008-3275 | linux | Medium | 5.5 | 2008-08-12 | The (1) real_lookup and (2) __lookup_hash functions in fs/namei.c in the vfs implementation in the Linux kernel before … | |
| CVE-2008-3686 | linux | Medium | 4.9 | 2008-08-14 | The rt6_fill_node function in net/ipv6/route.c in Linux kernel 2.6.26-rc4, 2.6.26.2, and possibly other 2.6.26 versions… | |
| CVE-2008-3534 | linux | Medium | 4.9 | 2008-08-08 | The shmem_delete_inode function in mm/shmem.c in the tmpfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.1 allows lo… | |
| CVE-2008-3535 | linux | Medium | 4.9 | 2008-08-08 | Off-by-one error in the iov_iter_advance function in mm/filemap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27-rc2 allows local us… | |
| CVE-2008-3272 | linux | Low | 2.1 | 2008-08-08 | The snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info function in sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c in the sound subsystem in the Linux kern… |