Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

6 Linux Kernel CVEs in May 2010

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In May 2010, 6 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 2 were rated High severity and 1 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. May's 6 CVEs represent 5% of all 2010 Linux kernel CVEs , down from April's 11 (a 45% month-over-month decrease) .

6
Total CVEs
0
Critical
2
High
1
Medium
3
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — May 2010 6 CVEs
All (6) Critical (0) High (2) Medium (1) Low (3)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2010-1173 linux High 7.1 2010-05-07 The sctp_process_unk_param function in net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.33.3 and earlier, when SCTP is …
CVE-2010-1437 linux High 7.0 2010-05-07 Race condition in the find_keyring_by_name function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.34-rc5 and earli…
CVE-2010-1436 linux Medium 4.9 2010-05-21 gfs2 in the Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, does not properly handle when the gfs2_quota struct occup…
CVE-2010-0730 linux Low 2.6 2010-05-12 The MMIO instruction decoder in the Xen hypervisor in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allo…
CVE-2010-1451 linux Low 2.1 2010-05-07 The TSB I-TLB load implementation in arch/sparc/kernel/tsb.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 on the SPARC platform do…
CVE-2010-1446 linux Low 1.9 2010-05-21 arch/powerpc/mm/fsl_booke_mmu.c in KGDB in the Linux kernel 2.6.30 and other versions before 2.6.33, when running on Po…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in May 2010?

6 Linux kernel CVEs were published in May 2010, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 2 High, and 1 Medium.

How does May 2010 compare to other months?

May 2010's 6 CVEs represent 5% of all 2010 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to April's 11 CVEs, this was a 45% decrease month-over-month. View the full 2010 breakdown →

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