Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

9 Linux Kernel CVEs in November 2015

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In November 2015, 9 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 1 was rated Critical, 1 was rated High severity and 6 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. November's 9 CVEs represent 10% of all 2015 Linux kernel CVEs , down from October's 10 (a 10% month-over-month decrease) .

9
Total CVEs
1
Critical
1
High
6
Medium
1
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — November 2015 9 CVEs
All (9) Critical (1) High (1) Medium (6) Low (1)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2015-5053 linux High 10.0 2015-11-24 The host memory mapping path feature in the NVIDIA GPU graphics driver R346 before 346.87 and R352 before 352.41 for Li…
CVE-2015-8104 linux Critical 10.0 2015-11-16 The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.2.6, and Xen 4.3.x through 4.6.x, allows guest OS users to cause a deni…
CVE-2015-2925 linux Medium 6.9 2015-11-16 The prepend_path function in fs/dcache.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.4 does not properly handle rename actions insid…
CVE-2015-7869 linux Medium 6.6 2015-11-24 Multiple integer overflows in the kernel mode driver for the NVIDIA GPU graphics driver R340 before 341.92, R352 before…
CVE-2015-8215 linux Medium 5.0 2015-11-16 net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the IPv6 stack in the Linux kernel before 4.0 does not validate attempted changes to the MTU val…
CVE-2015-5257 linux Medium 4.9 2015-11-16 drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.4 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial…
CVE-2015-5307 linux Medium 4.9 2015-11-16 The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.2.6, and Xen 4.3.x through 4.6.x, allows guest OS users to cause a deni…
CVE-2015-7312 linux Medium 4.4 2015-11-16 Multiple race conditions in the Advanced Union Filesystem (aufs) aufs3-mmap.patch and aufs4-mmap.patch patches for the …
CVE-2015-7872 linux Low 2.1 2015-11-16 The key_gc_unused_keys function in security/keys/gc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.2.6 allows local users to cause a d…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in November 2015?

9 Linux kernel CVEs were published in November 2015, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 1 was rated Critical severity, 1 High, and 6 Medium.

How does November 2015 compare to other months?

November 2015's 9 CVEs represent 10% of all 2015 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to October's 10 CVEs, this was a 10% decrease month-over-month. View the full 2015 breakdown →

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