Linux Kernel CVE Statistics
8 Linux Kernel CVEs in October 2008
Full month · Source: NIST NVD
In October 2008, 8 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 2 were rated High severity and 6 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. October's 8 CVEs represent 10% of all 2008 Linux kernel CVEs , down from September's 11 (a 27% month-over-month decrease) .
8
Total CVEs
0
Critical
2
High
6
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — October 2008
8 CVEs
| CVE ID | Package | Severity | CVSS | Published | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2008-4618 | linux | High | 7.8 | 2008-10-21 | The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 does not properly hand… | |
| CVE-2008-4576 | linux | High | 7.8 | 2008-10-15 | sctp in Linux kernel before 2.6.25.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via an INIT-ACK that … | |
| CVE-2008-4410 | linux | Medium | 4.9 | 2008-10-03 | The vmi_write_ldt_entry function in arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c in the Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) in the Linux kernel… | |
| CVE-2008-3832 | linux | Medium | 4.9 | 2008-10-03 | A certain Fedora patch for the utrace subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.5-28 on Fedora 8, and before 2.6.26.5… | |
| CVE-2008-3833 | linux | Medium | 4.9 | 2008-10-03 | The generic_file_splice_write function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 does not properly strip setuid … | |
| CVE-2008-3831 | linux | Medium | 4.7 | 2008-10-20 | The i915 driver in (1) drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.24 on Debian GNU/Linux and (2) sys/dev/pci/d… | |
| CVE-2008-4445 | linux | Medium | 4.7 | 2008-10-06 | The sctp_auth_ep_set_hmacs function in net/sctp/auth.c in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementatio… | |
| CVE-2008-4554 | linux | Medium | 4.6 | 2008-10-15 | The do_splice_from function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 does not reject file descriptors that have… |