Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

19 Linux Kernel CVEs in May 2018

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In May 2018, 19 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 9 were rated High severity and 10 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. May's 19 CVEs represent 4% of all 2018 Linux kernel CVEs , down from April's 38 (a 50% month-over-month decrease) .

19
Total CVEs
0
Critical
9
High
10
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — May 2018 19 CVEs
All (19) Critical (0) High (9) Medium (10) Low (0)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2018-11506 linux High 7.8 2018-05-28 The sr_do_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.12 allows local users to cause a d…
CVE-2018-3567 linux High 7.8 2018-05-17 In Qualcomm Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux ker…
CVE-2018-3568 linux High 7.8 2018-05-17 In Qualcomm Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux ker…
CVE-2017-15855 linux High 7.8 2018-05-17 In Qualcomm Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux ker…
CVE-2018-5827 linux High 7.8 2018-05-17 In Qualcomm Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux ker…
CVE-2018-1087 linux High 7.8 2018-05-15 kernel KVM before versions kernel 4.16, kernel 4.16-rc7, kernel 4.17-rc1, kernel 4.17-rc2 and kernel 4.17-rc3 is vulner…
CVE-2018-8897 linux High 7.8 2018-05-08 A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual (SDM) w…
CVE-2018-10675 linux High 7.8 2018-05-02 The do_get_mempolicy function in mm/mempolicy.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.9 allows local users to cause a denial …
CVE-2017-18270 linux High 7.1 2018-05-18 In the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, a local user could create keyrings for other users via keyctl commands, setting unwa…
CVE-2018-11412 linux Medium 5.9 2018-05-24 In the Linux kernel 4.13 through 4.16.11, ext4_read_inline_data() in fs/ext4/inline.c performs a memcpy with an untrust…
CVE-2018-1108 linux Medium 5.9 2018-05-21 kernel drivers before version 4.17-rc1 are vulnerable to a weakness in the Linux kernel's implementation of random seed…
CVE-2018-11508 linux Medium 5.5 2018-05-28 The compat_get_timex function in kernel/compat.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16.9 allows local users to obtain sensiti…
CVE-2018-1000199 linux Medium 5.5 2018-05-24 The Linux Kernel version 3.18 contains a dangerous feature vulnerability in modify_user_hw_breakpoint() that can result…
CVE-2018-11232 linux Medium 5.5 2018-05-18 The etm_setup_aux function in drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.2 allows…
CVE-2018-1130 linux Medium 5.5 2018-05-10 Linux kernel before version 4.16-rc7 is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() function in net/d…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in May 2018?

19 Linux kernel CVEs were published in May 2018, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 9 High, and 10 Medium.

How does May 2018 compare to other months?

May 2018's 19 CVEs represent 4% of all 2018 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to April's 38 CVEs, this was a 50% decrease month-over-month. View the full 2018 breakdown →

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