Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

23 Linux Kernel CVEs in January 2011

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In January 2011, 23 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 4 were rated High severity and 13 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. January's 23 CVEs represent 27% of all 2011 Linux kernel CVEs , up from December's 19 (a 21% month-over-month increase) .

23
Total CVEs
0
Critical
4
High
13
Medium
6
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — January 2011 23 CVEs
All (23) Critical (0) High (4) Medium (13) Low (6)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2010-4263 linux High 7.9 2011-01-18 The igb_receive_skb function in drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c in the Intel Gigabit Ethernet (aka igb) subsystem in the Lin…
CVE-2010-4164 linux High 7.8 2011-01-03 Multiple integer underflows in the x25_parse_facilities function in net/x25/x25_facilities.c in the Linux kernel before…
CVE-2010-3865 linux High 7.2 2011-01-11 Integer overflow in the rds_rdma_pages function in net/rds/rdma.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a den…
CVE-2010-4526 linux High 7.1 2011-01-11 Race condition in the sctp_icmp_proto_unreachable function in net/sctp/input.c in Linux kernel 2.6.11-rc2 through 2.6.3…
CVE-2010-4527 linux Medium 6.9 2011-01-13 The load_mixer_volumes function in sound/oss/soundcard.c in the OSS sound subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 i…
CVE-2010-4160 linux Medium 6.9 2011-01-07 Multiple integer overflows in the (1) pppol2tp_sendmsg function in net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c, and the (2) l2tp_ip_sendmsg fun…
CVE-2010-4238 linux Medium 5.5 2011-01-22 The vbd_create function in Xen 3.1.2, when the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 is used, allows…
CVE-2010-4247 linux Medium 5.5 2011-01-11 The do_block_io_op function in (1) drivers/xen/blkback/blkback.c and (2) drivers/xen/blktap/blktap.c in Xen before 3.4.…
CVE-2010-3873 linux Medium 5.0 2011-01-03 The X.25 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not properly parse facilities, which allows remote att…
CVE-2010-4243 linux Medium 4.9 2011-01-22 fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not enable the OOM Killer to assess use of stack memory by arrays repr…
CVE-2010-3086 linux Medium 4.9 2011-01-14 include/asm-x86/futex.h in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25 does not properly implement exception fixup, which allows loc…
CVE-2010-4175 linux Medium 4.9 2011-01-11 Integer overflow in the rds_cmsg_rdma_args function (net/rds/rdma.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.35 allows local users to cause…
CVE-2010-3448 linux Medium 4.9 2011-01-03 drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 on ThinkPad devices, when the X.Org X server is …
CVE-2010-4668 linux Medium 4.7 2011-01-03 The blk_rq_map_user_iov function in block/blk-map.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc7 allows local users to cause a…
CVE-2010-4162 linux Medium 4.7 2011-01-03 Multiple integer overflows in fs/bio.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 allow local users to cause a denial of servi…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in January 2011?

23 Linux kernel CVEs were published in January 2011, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 4 High, and 13 Medium.

How does January 2011 compare to other months?

January 2011's 23 CVEs represent 27% of all 2011 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to December's 19 CVEs, this was a 21% increase month-over-month. View the full 2011 breakdown →

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