Linux Kernel CVE Statistics
10 Linux Kernel CVEs in August 2018
Full month · Source: NIST NVD
In August 2018, 10 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 4 were rated High severity and 6 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. August's 10 CVEs represent 2% of all 2018 Linux kernel CVEs , down from July's 84 (a 88% month-over-month decrease) .
10
Total CVEs
0
Critical
4
High
6
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — August 2018
10 CVEs
| CVE ID | Package | Severity | CVSS | Published | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2018-16276 | linux | High | 7.8 | 2018-08-31 | An issue was discovered in yurex_read in drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17.7. Local attackers co… | |
| CVE-2018-14619 | linux | High | 7.8 | 2018-08-30 | A flaw was found in the crypto subsystem of the Linux kernel before version kernel-4.15-rc4. The "null skcipher" was be… | |
| CVE-2018-15471 | linux | High | 7.8 | 2018-08-17 | An issue was discovered in xenvif_set_hash_mapping in drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.1… | |
| CVE-2018-5390 | linux | High | 7.5 | 2018-08-06 | Linux kernel versions 4.9+ can be forced to make very expensive calls to tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() and tcp_prune_ofo_que… | |
| CVE-2018-15572 | linux | Medium | 6.5 | 2018-08-20 | The spectre_v2_select_mitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 does not alwa… | |
| CVE-2018-10938 | linux | Medium | 5.9 | 2018-08-27 | A flaw was found in the Linux kernel present since v4.0-rc1 and through v4.13-rc4. A crafted network packet sent remote… | |
| CVE-2018-15594 | linux | Medium | 5.5 | 2018-08-20 | arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 mishandles certain indirect calls, which makes it easier f… | |
| CVE-2018-7754 | linux | Medium | 5.5 | 2018-08-10 | The aoedisk_debugfs_show function in drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.4rc4 allows local user… | |
| CVE-2018-5953 | linux | Medium | 5.5 | 2018-08-07 | The swiotlb_print_info function in lib/swiotlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.14 allows local users to obtain sensi… | |
| CVE-2018-5995 | linux | Medium | 5.5 | 2018-08-07 | The pcpu_embed_first_chunk function in mm/percpu.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.14 allows local users to obtain sen… |